1616 J. Lane Contin. Squire's Tale (Douce 170) (1888) iii. 26 And looke what natures selfe hathe not supplyed, shall by queint painters hand bee storifyed [in Cambuscan's theatre].

1830 Fraser's Mag. 1 44 So 'tis plain that a sure means of gaining fame malice is; And many's the name which through it has been storified.

1899 Glasgow Herald 18 Nov. 9/4 The plays which Mr Surtees Townesend has ‘storified’ are ten in number.

1971 C. E. Passage tr. E. T. A. Hoffmann Three Märchen 159 Babbling on and storifying till you enmesh us and hold us ensnared in the strange bonds of magic.

1997 K. Egan Educated Mind (1998) i. ii. 64 We ‘storify’ events, whether fictional, real, or mixed as in daydreams, in order to understand them in a particular way.

1675 J. Smith Christian Relig. Appeal i. 70 His third [year] was so barren of Action, had so little wind stirring: as Tacitus complains his storifying Vein is becalm'd, his Pen can find no Pasturage in that Years Occurrences.

1928 L. R. Jackson Anarchism is not Enough 49 Roxana's long feminist declamation..was delicate common sense for the Dutch lover, frank but sentimental expediency for Roxana..and undisguised storifying for the reader present in the story.

2000 L. Chamberlain Secret Artist (2003) ix. 220 One of the strangest things in Freud is the impersonality in which he clothes the storifying creativity which he has banished from his personal makeup.

1796 J. Keys Antient Bee-Master's Farewell i. x. 61 [The profit] will amount to..four pounds seventeen shillings and sixpence a-year more, gained by storifying twelve stocks, than by a like number in single hives.

1796 J. Keys Antient Bee-Master's Farewell ii. vii. 226 (heading) To storify.

1850 G. W. Johnson Cottage Gardener III. 202/2 Should a third box be necessary, I have room to storify.

1882 Bees, Rabbits, & Pigeons ii. 24 The Stewarton hive..has helped materially to change the system of storifying bar-hives.

1905 Bee-Keeper's Rev. 15 Jan. 8/2 As soon as we arrive at the out-yard we unload the supers and storify them 10 or 12 high.

1938 Brit. Bee Jrnl. 15 Sept. 428/2 Keeping as many stocks as possible on the smallest amount of superficial area, short of storeyfying them.

2010 G. Kritsky Quest Perfect Hive iii. 46 The beekeeper would know when to storify by monitoring the hive's population of bees and its activity.

1796 J. Keys Antient Bee-Master's Farewell i. x. 56 Of all the methods which have hitherto come to my knowledge for the conducting of bees, that of storifying undoubtedly yields much the greatest profit.

1827 E. Bevan Honey-bee 99 This shed..is adapted either to storifying or single hiving.

1827 E. Bevan Honey-bee 111 Side boxes occupy a great deal more room than storifying boxes.

1888 R. C. Day Mod. Bee-keeping in Good Words May 355/1 He finds himself in doubt between the ‘combination’ system, the ‘storifying’ system, [etc.].

1915 Gleanings Bee Culture 15 Feb. 145/1 This hive..was always used as a single brood-chamber, never on the storifying or supering-up plan.

2005 T. Horn Bees in Amer. (2006) iii. 67 (caption) Storifying using cylindrical skeps and a bell-shaped top skep.