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Your word for today is: history, v.

history, v.
Pronunciation: Brit. /ˈhɪst(ə)ri/,  U.S. /ˈhɪst(ə)ri/
Forms:  lME historied past participle,   15 hystory,   15– history.
Etymology: <  Middle French historier to write (a history book or
chronicle), to decorate with depictions of historical events (both end
of the 14th cent.) <  post-classical Latin historiare (also
historiari, deponent) to seek by questioning (5th cent.), to record,
relate (6th cent.), to decorate with historical scenes (15th cent.) <
classical Latin historia history n. Compare Catalan historiar (1479),
Spanish historiar (c1400), Portuguese historiar (14th cent.).
The earliest examples of post-classical Latin historiare are in works
translating Greek sources, where the original text has forms of
ancient Greek ἱστορεῖν to inquire, in Hellenistic Greek also to
record.
 1.  trans. To relate in a history or narrative; to write the history
of; to record, narrate, recount.
c1475 (1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 13 As in the 39 chapitre of
the Actis of the said King Philip more plainly is historied.
1502  tr.  Ordynarye of Crysten Men (de Worde) Epil. sig. tt.iiiv,
Newely hystoryed and translated out of Frenshe in to Englysshe.
1570  J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) II. 2283/1 This
persecutyng tyme of Queene Mary in this our Realme of England: as
partly hath bene already historyed, and part yet remaineth..moreouer
hereunto to be added.
1600  Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. i. 201 And keepe no tel-tale to
his memorie, That may repeate, and history his losse, To new
remembrance.
1659  T. Palmer Little View of Old World 150 It is Historied, that
when the Church was met upon the death of Pontanus, for a new
Election, a Dove setled upon the head of Anterus, [etc.].
1766  ‘C. Tell-truth’ Entertainer II. 96 The grand M'Carthy's of the
county of Kerry, whose noble actions and exploits..will never be
forgotten..but raised, historied, and enobled.
1846 Westm. Rev. Sept. 40/2 Even the most insignificant particulars,
masons' bills, workmen's names, are historied with provoking industry
and smile-provoking gravity.
1883 Red Dragon 4 128 Such sins you will not find historied here.
1914 Amer. Rev. of Reviews Mar. 310 Balboa is said to have
contemplated a waterway connecting the two vast oceans; and his
Spanish sovereign is historied to have entertained the scheme.
2001  S. Grace Canada & Idea of North i. ii. 58 Our historians began
to focus more critically on the question of the North by stepping back
far enough..to see how the North was historied in the nineteenth
century.
 2.  trans. To inscribe or adorn with a pictorial representation of an
event or events; to decorate with historical scenes. Chiefly in past
participle. Cf. history n. 5. Now rare.
1585  T. Washington tr.  N. de Nicolay Nauigations Turkie ii. xvi. f.
50v, A great Colomne of Marbre historied [Fr. historiee] after the
maner of those of Antonin and Adrian..at Rome.
1670  S. Wilson Lassels's Voy. Italy (new ed.) ii. 228 Its three
brazen dores historyed with a fine basso relieuo.
1722  tr.  F. Raguenet Roma Illustrata xxx. 139 The Ornaments with
which other Gates are sometimes covered and historied over.
1920  G. G. King Way of St. James 340 The great capitals on the
coupled shafts are historied all around, commencing all on the garden
side.

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