Middle English Dictionary Entry
historī(e n.
Entry Info
| Forms | historī(e n. Also istorie & estori(e & histoire. |
| Etymology | L historia & OF estoire, estorie, h)istoire. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A tale, story, biography, legend; (b) a systematic account of past events, a history; (c) history as a branch of knowledge and as a mode of writing; (d) a representation of historical events in a tableau or a tapestry; (e) a passage from one of the historical books of the Old Testament used in the liturgy.
Associated quotations
a
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.885 : And with the lust of here histoire Somtime I drawe into memoire Hou sorwe mai noght evere laste.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)6.1383 : As I finde in a bok compiled To this matiere an old histoire, The which comth nou to mi memoire.
- (a1393) Gower CA (Frf 3)7.3790 : So that thensample of this histoire Is good for every king to holde.
- ?a1440 Chaucer CT.ML.(Paris angl.39)B.1124 : His history [Heng: I lete al this storie passen by].
- ?a1475(a1396) *Hilton SP (Hrl 6579)1.11.7b : Þus we reden in þe ystorie of here [Marie Magdalene].
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)65 : Here folowithe the historie of the most noble recommendacion in perpetuite of Marcus Actilius.
- a1500 Mirror Salv.(Beeleigh)p.1 : And in this bokes proheme be chapitles frist write I; The maters & the estories euerylkone by and by.
b
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)22 : Youre first anncien right and title in youre duchie of Normandie..is knowen..of highe recorde by many credible bookis of olde cronicles and histories.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)51 : Who so wolle considre welle the histories of olde croniclers, as of Josephas..Orosius..Titus Livius..and such othirs.
c
- a1450(c1433) Lydg.St.Edm.(Hrl 2278)424/603 : And as it is remembryd in historye And registred be old antiquyte, Beside Radforde he hadde this victorye.
- a1500(?c1425) Spec.Sacer.(Add 36791)118/4 : And this feste is callid tyme of Paske by historie, allegorie, and tropo[lo]gye. By storye, for the pepel of Israel, when that the Paske was firste celebrett..passid the Reede See.
d
- a1509(?1468) Marriage in Archaeol.31 (Add 46354)332 : Other pageaunts of dyvers historis.
- a1509(?1468) Marriage in Archaeol.31 (Add 46354)333 : Marvelous in my mind, the curyous makinge that is in the forsaide arras, and is of auncient historie of the Byble, of famous Gedeon.
e
- a1500 Rule Minoresses (Bod 585)113/4 : Ȝif any fest..whoche haþ proper respons..fal on a sonday, þere as none estori shal be first entrid, þe offise shal be seyde of þe fest & memori of þe sonday.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- c1230(?a1200) Ancr.(Corp-C 402)81/19 : Me schal, leoue sustren, þeose estoires [Tit: estories; Nero: storie; Cleo: storien] tellen ow, for ha weren to longe to writen ham here.
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