historiann.adj.

a1439 J. Lydgate Fall of Princes (Bodl. 263) iv. 2175 Whos hih renoun ful weel reherse can Prudent Iustinus, the grete historian [Fr. historien].

c1475 (?c1451) Bk. Noblesse (Royal) (1860) 51 And as it is made mencion in the olde historien called Gildas.

1531 T. Elyot Bk. named Gouernour i. xxiv. sig. Lviii^v Quintus Fabius for this qualitie is soueraignely extolled amonge historiens.

1569 J. Sanford tr. H. C. Agrippa Of Vanitie Artes & Sci. 15 There are..other amonge the Historians, giltie of greater lies.

a1586 Sir P. Sidney Apol. Poetrie (1595) sig. C1 The Historian [sayth] what men haue done.

1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. M3 Three [statues] are of that famous Historian Titus Liuius, who was borne and brought vp in Padua.

1655 J. Howell 4th Vol. Familiar Lett. xi. 29 Not to be an Historian, that is not to know what Forren Nations and our Forefathers did, Hoc est semper esse Puer, as Cicero hath it.

1718 H. Prideaux Old & New Test. Connected II. ii. 120 They are certainly the worst Historians, and the worst accounters of Times, that ever pretended to be either.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) I. xii. 87 It is the historian's office to punish, though he cannot correct.

1830 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I III. iii. 26 Such ambiguous facts..often baffle the researches of the historian.

1873 E. A. Freeman Hist. Ess. 2nd Ser. ix. 308 Gibbon is before all things the historian of the transition from the Roman world to the world of modern Europe.

1879 J. Gairdner Early Chron. Eng. ii. 77 He [sc. William of Malmesbury] is a genuine historian, not a dry compiler of annals like the writers who preceded him.

1937 Life 26 July 28/1 Future historians may well conclude that not since the assassination of Lincoln did any statesman's sudden death so sway the course of U.S. government and politics.

1956 A. Wilson Anglo-Saxon Attitudes ii. iii. 369 He was the most awful old fraud himself, you know. Oh, not as an historian, you always said he was the goods.

2008 A. G. Radke-Moss Bright Epoch 14 She also is one of the first historians to deal with practices of gender separation and segregation within a coeducational environment.

1586 G. Pettie & B. Yong tr. S. Guazzo Ciuile Conuersat. (rev. ed.) iv. f. 202^v You are but a simple Historian for ministring of mirth.

1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 1194 Our discoursing Historians [Gk. περιηγητὴς] and expositours shewed us the place, where sometimes stood the obelisks of iron.

1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 7 What thanks sufficient..have I to render thee, Divine Hystorian . View more context for this quotation

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. Author to Bk. sig. Biv^v Go lively charg'd with stout Historian Faith, And trample downe base Crittickes in the Dust.

1683 F. Spence tr. M. de Scudéry Conversat. Several Subj. II. 125 A Lady of Sycion, called Chryfila, was the true Historianess [Fr. Historienne].

1837 New Monthly Mag. 49 597 Mrs. Macauley, the historianess, married his brother.

1860 Eclectic Mag. Aug. 473/2 This opinion, duly inculcated by the venerable historianesses of the nursery, we often carry about with us in life.