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storier|ˈstɔərɪə(r)| Also 5–7 storyer. [In sense 1, aphetic variant of historier; in senses 2, 3 f. story n.1 or v.1 + -er1.] †1. A chronicler, historian. Obs.
1387–8T. Usk Test. Love iii. iv. (Skeat) 257 In goodnes of gentil manliche speche, without any maner of nyceté of storiers imaginacion,..he passeth al other makers. c1400tr. Secreta Secret., Gov. Lordsh. 100 Swylk er customyd to be wel spekyng, wel taght, curteys, and good storyers. c1449Pecock Repr. iii. xii. 351 Forwhi noon fundamental cronicler or storier writith therof, saue Girald. c1555Harpsfield Divorce Hen. VIII (1878) 232 We now add Bede himself, whom the said storyers do follow. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent 22 For proofe whereof, I will call to witnesse Thomas Spot..bycause he only (of all the Storiers that I haue seene) reporteth it. a1640Jackson Creed xi. xli. Wks. 1673 III. 718 Had the spirit of God been storyer of their lives, we should have had notice of their often trippings. 2. The teller of a story; a story-teller. nonce-uses.
1826Disraeli Viv. Grey v. xiii. 237 ‘But it is a very curious story.’.. ‘Oh! so is every story, according to the storier.’ 1830― Let. 25 Aug., Home Lett. vii. (1885) 54 Some smoking in sedate silence, some telling their beads, some squatting round a storier. 3. dial. One who tells ‘stories’ or fibs.
1877N.W. Linc. Gloss. 1908[Miss E. Fowler] Trent & Ancholme 52 She's a storier. Why she was sayin' there was a ghost. |