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narration|næˈreɪʃən|
Also 5–6 -cion, 6 -cyon, -tioun, 6 Sc. nerr-.
[a. F. narration (12–13th c.), or ad. L. narrātiōn-em, noun of action f. narrāre to narrate: see -ation.]
1. The action of relating or recounting, or the fact of being recounted; an instance of this. † In early use esp. in phr. to make narration.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 175 The ordre of the narracion of stories requirethe that the gestes of the worlde scholde be describede also. 1481Caxton Myrr. iii. xix. 176 It behoueth ouer longe narracion that of alle them wolde descryue the gretenes. 1509Hawes Past. Pleas. xxiv. (Percy Soc.) 108 Fantasy, and estymacyon truely, And memory, as I make narracyon, Eche upon other hath occupacyon. 1573G. Harvey Letter-bk. (Camden) 44 The short time I have wil scars suffice to make a simple and bare narration of things. 1594T. B. La Primaud. Fr. Acad. ii. 389 Our meaning is not to make any long particular narration. 1697Dryden æneid Ded. a j b, Narration, doubtless, preceded Acting, and gave Laws to it. 1823Byron Juan xiv. vii, This narrative is not meant for narration, But a mere airy and fantastic basis. 1844Miss Mitford in L'Estrange Life (1870) III. x. 189 Mr. Dickens wants the earnest good-faith in narration which makes Balzac so enchanting. 1870Lowell Study Wind. (1871) 191 [Dante] the great master of laconic narration.
b. That which is narrated or recounted; a story, narrative, account.
1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) II. 429 Whiche thynge was provede to haue bene after his narracion. 1482Monk of Evesham (Arb.) 65 Let vs turne ageyne thys narracyon to thoes thynges the whyche we haue lefte oute. 1528Roy Rede me (Arb.) 73 Olde wyves tales..Which they call holy narracions. 1576Fleming Panopl. Epist. 255 Vppon vrgent necessitie, wee must..leuen our Orations with historical narrations. 1624Capt. Smith Virginia Ep. Ded. 2 Your Gratious hand..hath given birth to the publication of this Narration. 1662Stillingfl. Orig. Sacræ iii. i. §1 A Divine revelation then must be faithful and true in all its narrations. 1710Steele Tatler No. 20 ⁋1 The following Narration is a sufficient Testimony of the Truth of this Observation. 1794J. R. Sullivan View Nat. II. 214 It is a narration suited to the capacity of the people. 1859Blackwell Mallet's North. Antiq. 76 That kind of narrations, in which truth is designedly blended with fable.
2. a. Rhet. That part of an oration in which the facts of the matter are stated (see quots.).
1509Hawes Past. Pleas. x. (Percy Soc.) 34 Dysposicion, the true seconde parte Of rethorike, doth evermore dyrecte The maters..As from a fayre parfit narracion. 1553T. Wilson Rhet. 4 The narracion is a plain and manifest poynctyng of the matter, and an evident settyng furthe of all thynges that belong unto the same. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 23 The force hereof besides the Exordium comprehendeth chiefly a Narration. 1612Brinsley Lud. Lit. xiii. (1627) 180 In their Narration, to the end the Auditors may fully understand the matter. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., The narration, according to the writers of rhetoric, makes the second part of a just speech, or harangue; viz. that immediately following the exordium. 1840Penny Cycl. XVI. 468/2 Under disposition the various parts of an oration are discussed, viz. the exordium, narration [etc.].
b. The story related in a poem; the narrative part of a poem; a narrative passage in a drama.
1586W. Webbe Eng. Poetrie (Arb.) 88 The proposition or narration let it not be far fetched or vnlikely. 1668Dryden Dram. Poesy Ess. (ed. Ker) I. 62 Not that I commend narrations in general,—but there are two sorts of them. One, of those things which are antecedent to the play [etc.]. 1727–38Chambers Cycl. s.v., In the drama, the narration is the whole of the piece; in the epopœia, it is only a part, though in effect it is the principal part, and the main body of the poem. 1783Blair Lect. xlii. II. 425 In the narration of the Poet..it is not material, whether he relate the whole story in his own character, or introduce some of his personages to relate any part of the action.
Hence naˈrrational a.
1866Reader 29 Sept. 823 These indications of his opinions are anachronisms from a narrational point of view. 1867Art Jrnl. XXIX. 95/3 It is neither absolutely scientific, nor descriptive, nor narrational. |