st
r
(e (n.(1)) Also stor
,
storri;
pl. stories,
etc. & storise,
storius,
(early) storien
& (error) strories.
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1.
(a)
A narrative account, oral or written, of events that occurred or are believed
to have occurred in the past, a story from history or accepted as history;
a narrative drawn from the Bible or a saint's life, an account of a martyr,
etc.; naked ~,
an unvarnished account, a true story; (b) a narrative account, oral or written, of events which
may be mythological or fictive, but which are accepted as quasi-historical by
virtue of great age or long tradition; also, an invented tale with a plausible
plot; (c) ~ makere (writer), the writer of a historical
narrative; ~ quadrivialle, ?a four-part history; ?the
history of the entire world; bok of (the) stories, a historical account or
record, book of history; clerk
(maister) of (the) stories, Peter Comestor, author of the Historia
Scholastica; holi ~, the Bible, Holy Writ;
(d) a literary or historical source; also, coll. & pl. the
sources on which a narrative is based; (e) in titles: the ~ ecclesiastica,
the chirches
~, the Historia Ecclesiastica of Eusebius; the ~ of the gospels, the
section of Peter Comestor's Historia
Scholastica recounting the Gospel narrative; stories (of bestes,
the Historia Animalium
of Aristotle; the thre-departed ~, the Historia
Tripartita compiled by Cassiodorus, sometimes confused
with Eusebius' Chronicle or his Historia
Ecclesiastica [see 1st quot.].
2.
History
as a branch of knowledge dealing with past events, the recorded knowledge of
the past; historical narrative in general; bok of ~, a history; don in ~, to write (sth.) down, record; maken (writen) ~,
record (write) history.
3.
A pictorial or sculptural representation
of a historical subject, a depiction of a historical or pseudo-historical event
or series of events, a depiction of a story from legend, the Bible, etc.; stories glasand,
pictorial representations of historical subjects in glass; ~ gravinge,
a sculptural or engraved representation of a historical subject.
4.
(a) An event or series of events or deeds
which actually occurred or are believed to have occurred
in the past, a historical or pseudo-historical incident; (b) fig. a
predicament, development, circumstance.
5.
(a) A humorous anecdote; (b) yeven a ~ to, to make a fiction
of something, ignore.
6.
(a) Meaning, sense, purport; ~ of wordes;
(b) the literal or historical meaning of a text (as opposed to the allegorical
and tropological senses).