Middle English Dictionary Entry
historier n.
Entry Info
| Forms | historier n. |
| Etymology | OF historiëur |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
A historian.
Associated quotations
- (c1449) Pecock Repr.(Cmb Kk.4.26)366 : The seid epistle is an vntrewe apocrife, namelich sithen historiers, dwelling in thilk same cuntre and soone after the deede doon, kouthen knowe better the treuthe of the deede than othere men dwelling ferther fro thens in rombe.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)25 : How the historier procedithe in his matier.
- c1475(?c1451) Worcester Bk.Noblesse (Roy 18.B.22)43 : An nother exhortacion of the historier.