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单词 annalist
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Definition of annalist in English:

annalist

nounˈan(ə)lɪstˈæn(ə)ləst
  • A person who writes annals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Not a philosopher, not an annalist, not a chorographer or antiquarian, but a historian.
    • The prose represents the style of 10c Saxon annalists.
    • The secretary, treasurer and annalist shall be elected for a two-year term or until a successor is elected.
    • This monograph, representing the revised dissertation of the author, is an extensive and erudite commentary on the extant fragments of the Roman annalist L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi.
    • The annalist for 1884-1885 emphasized the importance of this financial source when the sisters almost lost the contract that year.
    • Apart from his unhistorical approach, Livy has also been attacked for failing to be critical of his sources, particularly Roman annalists.
    • He was preceded by a handful of annalists, notably Hydatius in Galicia, and followed, among others, by Gregory of Tours and Fredegar in Francia, Isidore in Spain, Bede in Northumbria, and Paul the Deacon in Italy.
    • So too the annalists of the Annals of Ulster, who most frequently called the Viking incomers ‘foreigners’, sometimes differentiated between ‘dark’ and ‘fair’ foreigners.
    Synonyms
    storyteller, teller of tales, recounter, relater, describer, chronicler, romancer, reporter

Derivatives

  • annalistic

  • adjectivean(ə)ˈlɪstɪkˌæn(ə)lˈɪstɪk
    • The Ingimund episode is largely detailed in an Irish annalistic source, but Welsh annals mention a battle on Anglesey in 903 where ‘Ogmundr’ was defeated by the Welsh.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • It is believed to have developed from the brief annalistic entries in Easter tables, and the entries up to 449 are as brief as the single-sentence Latin annals in those tables.
      • The vagueness of the date arises from the fact that the event seems to have had no place in the early Arabic annalistic tradition.
      • These pragmatic histories, describing in detail short periods of time, were soon replaced at Rome by the annalistic reconstruction of Rome's early history.
      • The narrative of Dionysios of Halikarnassos is somewhat different, perhaps following an annalistic tradition and not Virgil's source.
      • Sallust's last work, the Histories, was annalistic (arranged by years). It covered events from 78, perhaps continuing Cornelius Sisenna, though it included a retrospect of earlier events.
  • annalistically

  • adverban(ə)ˈlɪstɪk(ə)li
    • An Atthis was a chronicle, organized annalistically by kings and magistrates, that attempted to record all facets of the local history of Athens.
      Example sentencesExamples
      • The fully preserved historical books cover 480-302 and are organized annalistically, with Olympian, Athenian archon, and Roman consular years synchronized - often erroneously.
      • Jacoby took this as confirmation of his theory, altogether preconceived, that the Atthis was composed annalistically.
      • The other major source of eponyms, of course, are the classical historians, particularly those who were organised annalistically.
      • Unlike the Roman historians of the republican days who wrote their histories annalistically, that is year by year in sequence, this work is much more varied and informal with a slight tendency to write by plans and epochs.
      • Unlike his predecessor, Herodotus, he didn't delve into the background but laid out the facts as he saw them, chronologically or annalistically.

Rhymes

analyst, cryptanalyst, panellist (US panelist), psychoanalyst
 
 

Definition of annalist in US English:

annalist

nounˈæn(ə)ləstˈan(ə)ləst
  • A person who writes annals.

    Example sentencesExamples
    • The prose represents the style of 10c Saxon annalists.
    • He was preceded by a handful of annalists, notably Hydatius in Galicia, and followed, among others, by Gregory of Tours and Fredegar in Francia, Isidore in Spain, Bede in Northumbria, and Paul the Deacon in Italy.
    • So too the annalists of the Annals of Ulster, who most frequently called the Viking incomers ‘foreigners’, sometimes differentiated between ‘dark’ and ‘fair’ foreigners.
    • The annalist for 1884-1885 emphasized the importance of this financial source when the sisters almost lost the contract that year.
    • Not a philosopher, not an annalist, not a chorographer or antiquarian, but a historian.
    • The secretary, treasurer and annalist shall be elected for a two-year term or until a successor is elected.
    • This monograph, representing the revised dissertation of the author, is an extensive and erudite commentary on the extant fragments of the Roman annalist L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi.
    • Apart from his unhistorical approach, Livy has also been attacked for failing to be critical of his sources, particularly Roman annalists.
    Synonyms
    storyteller, teller of tales, recounter, relater, describer, chronicler, romancer, reporter
 
 
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