narrativen.

Brit.

/ˈnarətɪv/, U.S.

/ˈnɛrədɪv/

Forms: 1500s–1600s narratiue, 1500s–1600s narrowtiue, 1600s– narrative; Scottish pre-1700 nerratiue, pre-1700 nerretiue, pre-1700 1700s– narrative.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: narrative adj.

Etymology: < narrative adj. Compare Middle French, French †narratif, also †narrative account (late 14th cent.).

1. Scots Law.

a. A part of a legal document which contains a statement of alleged or relevant facts closely connected with the matter or purpose of the document; spec. a statement of the parties to a deed and the cause of its granting.

ΘΚΠ

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1539 Protocol Bk. Hew Rig 31 As to this precept ye sall understand it wants the haile conclusioun for it has nathing bot the nerratiue of the Kingis letters.

1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 382 The haill narrative of the said supplicatioun [being] verefeit and understand to thair Lordships.

1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1938) II. 235 A lybell conceavit alternative in the narrative, if in the conclusione the petition be simple, it is inept and irrelevant.

1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. x. §63. 148 He who craves regress had right when he changed any further then by the Narrative of the Excambion.

a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. iii. §22 189 After the name and designation of the granter, follows that clause in the charter called the narrative, or recital.

1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 669 The narrative describes the granter and the person in whose favour the deed is granted, and states the cause of granting.

1946 A. D. Gibb Students' Gloss. Sc. Legal Terms 58 The narrative of a deed (anglice, recitals) sets out the names of grantor and grantee and the cause of granting.

†b. An allegation made as the basis of a legal action. Cf. narration n. 2b. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun]

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1566–7 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 496 He..wes fred and relevit..upoun celerat and wrangus narrative without satisfactioun.

c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 277 The compliner salbe..declared to have used na fraude nor fals narrative.

1695 Acts. Parl. Scotl. (1822) IX. 412/1 Sir James Rochead did impetrat and elicit from them an act..whereby upon a specious narrative of right..he prevailed with the then magistrats.

a. An account of a series of events, facts, etc., given in order and with the establishing of connections between them; a narration, a story, an account.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account > an account of something

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1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. B.3^v This is nouther dremit in wardrop, nor hard throw a boir, but a trew narratiue.

1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 53 Therefore by this Narratiue you now vnderstand the state of the Question.

1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 36 in Justice Vindicated Diodorus Siculus..gives a narrative of the original government of the Egyptians.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 537 Gushing tears the narrative confound.

1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxx. 10 He shall find me ready to maintain the truth of my narrative.

1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 22 We shall now state a few particulars..to prepare him for the circumstances of our narrative.

1895 Bookman Oct. 25/2 This history..is..a straightforward, readable narrative.

1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps i. 27 It was the wildest sort of narrative, but I had heard in my time many steep tales.

1927 C. A. Lindbergh ‘We’ ix. 177 This narrative is a record of events, not an analysis.

1981 B. A. Farrell Standing of Psychoanalysis v. 68 Freud will then have good grounds to believe that at least the main part of this narrative about L. is true.

b. Literary Criticism. The part of a text, esp. a work of fiction, which represents the sequence of events, as distinguished from that dealing with dialogue, description, etc.; narration as a literary method or genre.narrative is sometimes used to refer to the story as it is supposed to have taken place, whereas plot is used to refer to the way in which the story is revealed.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling

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1843 tr. J.-J. Rousseau in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 28/2 Recitative is the means of union between melody and speech, by whose aid, that which is merely dialogue becomes recital or narrative.

a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) vii. 240 The narrative continually breaks into dialogue.

1936 C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love i. 1 It is essential to this form that the literal narrative and the significacio should be separable.

1951 Kenyon Rev. 13 102 Properly used as critical terms, an author's narrative is his linear movement; his meaning is the integrity of his completed form.

1960 Ess. in Crit. 10 256 But in this passage, of course, James isn't in the ordinary sense making abstract or general statements; it's narrative, not expository prose.

1991 E. J. Smyth Postmodernism & Contemp. Fiction iii. 64 She abandons the conventions of linear narrative, normal chronology, plot and characterization.

c. In structuralist and post-structuralist theory: a representation of a history, biography, process, etc., in which a sequence of events has been constructed into a story in accordance with a particular ideology; esp. in grand narrative n. [after French grand récit (1979 in the passage translated in quot. 1984)] a story or representation used to give an explanatory or justificatory account of a society, period, etc.

ΚΠ

1977 S. Heath tr. R. Barthes Image, Music, Text 79 Narrative [1966 le récit] is international, transhistorical, transcultural: it is simply there, like life itself.

1984 G. Bennington & B. Massumi tr. J.-F. Lyotard Postmodern Condition p. xxiii I will use the term modern to designate any science that legitimates itself with reference to a metadiscourse of this kind making an explicit appeal to some grand narrative.

1991 Past & Present Aug. 120 In historical accounts of Third World countries.., where there are data relating to the emergence of politics, they are generally concealed behind the dominant narratives of the state and nationalism.

2000 C. Brunsdon Feminist, Housewife & Soap Opera 6 This autobiographical turn is not currently unusual in critical intellectual work, assailed as its practitioners are by..a reluctance to appear to endorse the grand narratives which might permit an impersonal voice.

3. As a mass noun: the practice or art of narration or storytelling; material for narration.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun]

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1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 19 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1245 To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination.

1778 F. Burney Evelina II. xxix. 249 What have I to write? Narrative does not offer, nor does a lively imagination supply the deficiency.

1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 223 The path of narrative with care pursue.

1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xi. 436 He might have done this didactically, or by way of narrative.

1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 33/3 The film pulls all its political punches, settling instead for sentimental narrative.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

narrativeadj.

Brit.

/ˈnarətɪv/, U.S.

/ˈnɛrədɪv/

Forms: late Middle English narratyf, 1600s narratiue, 1600s– narrative.

Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French narratif; Latin narrativus.

Etymology: < Middle French narratif (mid 15th cent.; compare earlier narratif , noun: see narrative n.) and its etymon post-classical Latin narrativus suited to narration (4th–5th centuries) < classical Latin narrāt- , past participial stem of narrāre narrate v. + -īvus -ive suffix.

a. That narrates or recounts, that tells a story; of or concerned with narration; having the character or form of narration.In quot. c1450: spec. historical, biographical.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > [adjective]

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society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > relating to narration or story-telling

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diegetic1970

society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > narrating or telling stories

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c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 31 (MED) It is cleped þe book of þe quantite of þe soule..in whech book many sotil þinggis ar touchid whech long not to þis maner of wryting þat is cleped narratyf.

1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee2^v The diuision of Poesie which is aptest in the proprietie thereof..is into poesie narrative, representative, and allvsive.

a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. ii. 182 The representation of Divine things by some Sensible images or some Narrative voice must needs be in them both.

1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 297. ⁋6 The Paradise Lost is an Epic or a Narrative Poem.

1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 188. ⁋5 No style of conversation is more extensively acceptable than the narrative.

1844 L. Hunt Imagination & Fancy 20 The greatest of all narrative writers.

1871 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire (ed. 3) Pref. A narrative history of the countries included in the Romano-Germanic Empire.

1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Oct. 809/2 Like the work of so many of the ‘social’ novelists of his period, it is to a large extent a sort of narrative journalism of contemporary events.

2000 World & I (Electronic ed.) Sept. A much more mature and absorbing book, full of narrative interest.

b. Art. Representing a story through the medium of painting or similar art forms.

ΚΠ

1902 R. Fry Let. 10 Oct. (1972) I. 196 Already he has Giovanni Bellini's farmito colours..and he has too the pure narrative style..of the great Venetians.

1962 Listener 22 Feb. 335/2 That rich outpouring of ‘narrative’ painting which began in England with the Bayeux tapestry, continued through the missals and Books of Hours, to be picked up again by Hogarth, Rowlandson, and Gillray.

1988 Smithsonian Stud. Amer. Art Fall 63/1 Far from considering this image as the end of a narrative sequence, Homer has used this painting..to establish a moral choice for the viewer.

†2. Given to narration; garrulous, talkative. Also (in extended use): eloquent of. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective]

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1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 111 Mr. John Smith (called Narrative Smith).

1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. ix The tattling Quality of Age, which, as Sir William Davenant says, is always Narrative.

1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 80 The banquet done, the Narrative old man Thus mild, the pleasing conference began.

1826 J. J. Conybeare Illustr. Anglo-Saxon Poetry 68 The narrative old monarch proceeds to state that..Heribald was accidentally killed.

1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxviii. 193 There was ample space on the hearth—accommodation for narrative bagmen or boxmen.

1882 Fraser's Mag. 26 503 There are the decayed taverns..where stone and wood and lime are narrative of hoary antiquity.

Compounds

narrative line n. a consecutively developed storyline.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account

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1953 Shakespeare Q. 4 339 Here [i.e. in Much Ado about Nothing] three divergent narrative lines blend to portray man's delusions as laughable.

1972 Guardian 16 Feb. 12/3 I pictured a story with every western cliche in it... Why have a straight narrative line when everybody knows the story?

1999 Res. Afr. Lit. 30 117 She chooses her own husband and ends unhappy. This is a narrative line that can be realized in an almost infinite number of ways.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	narrative
释义	narrativen. Brit. /ˈnarətɪv/, U.S. /ˈnɛrədɪv/ Forms: 1500s–1600s narratiue, 1500s–1600s narrowtiue, 1600s– narrative; Scottish pre-1700 nerratiue, pre-1700 nerretiue, pre-1700 1700s– narrative. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: narrative adj. Etymology: < narrative adj. Compare Middle French, French †narratif, also †narrative account (late 14th cent.). 1. Scots Law. a. A part of a legal document which contains a statement of alleged or relevant facts closely connected with the matter or purpose of the document; spec. a statement of the parties to a deed and the cause of its granting. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account talec1200 historyc1230 sawc1320 tellinga1325 treatisec1374 chroniclec1380 process?1387 legendc1390 prosec1390 pistlec1395 treatc1400 relationc1425 rehearsal?a1439 report?a1439 narrationc1449 recorda1450 count1477 redec1480 story1489 recount1490 deductiona1532 repetition1533 narrative1539 discourse1546 account1561 recital1561 enarrative1575 legendary1577 enarration1592 recite1594 repeat1609 texture1611 recitation1614 rendera1616 prospect1625 recitement1646 tell1743 diegesis1829 récit1915 narrative line1953 1539 Protocol Bk. Hew Rig 31 As to this precept ye sall understand it wants the haile conclusioun for it has nathing bot the nerratiue of the Kingis letters. 1574 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1878) 1st Ser. II. 382 The haill narrative of the said supplicatioun [being] verefeit and understand to thair Lordships. 1656 in J. A. Clyde Hope's Major Practicks (1938) II. 235 A lybell conceavit alternative in the narrative, if in the conclusione the petition be simple, it is inept and irrelevant. 1681 J. Dalrymple Inst. Law Scotl. i. x. §63. 148 He who craves regress had right when he changed any further then by the Narrative of the Excambion. a1768 J. Erskine Inst. Law Scotl. (1773) I. ii. iii. §22 189 After the name and designation of the granter, follows that clause in the charter called the narrative, or recital. 1838 W. Bell Dict. Law Scotl. 669 The narrative describes the granter and the person in whose favour the deed is granted, and states the cause of granting. 1946 A. D. Gibb Students' Gloss. Sc. Legal Terms 58 The narrative of a deed (anglice, recitals) sets out the names of grantor and grantee and the cause of granting. †b. An allegation made as the basis of a legal action. Cf. narration n. 2b. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] spellc888 talea1060 book-spellc1275 pistlec1400 treatyc1400 narrationc1449 story1489 reportory1534 narrative1566 reportary1594 monogatari1876 récit1915 diegesis1973 1566–7 in J. H. Burton Reg. Privy Council Scotl. (1877) 1st Ser. I. 496 He..wes fred and relevit..upoun celerat and wrangus narrative without satisfactioun. c1626 H. Bisset Rolment Courtis (1920) I. 277 The compliner salbe..declared to have used na fraude nor fals narrative. 1695 Acts. Parl. Scotl. (1822) IX. 412/1 Sir James Rochead did impetrat and elicit from them an act..whereby upon a specious narrative of right..he prevailed with the then magistrats. 2. a. An account of a series of events, facts, etc., given in order and with the establishing of connections between them; a narration, a story, an account. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account > an account of something speecha1387 recitalc1550 narrative1571 1571 G. Buchanan Admonitioun Trew Lordis sig. B.3^v This is nouther dremit in wardrop, nor hard throw a boir, but a trew narratiue. 1622 F. Bacon Hist. Raigne Henry VII 53 Therefore by this Narratiue you now vnderstand the state of the Question. 1660 R. Coke Elements Power & Subjection 36 in Justice Vindicated Diodorus Siculus..gives a narrative of the original government of the Egyptians. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey III. x. 537 Gushing tears the narrative confound. 1769 ‘Junius’ Stat Nominis Umbra (1772) II. xxx. 10 He shall find me ready to maintain the truth of my narrative. 1837 W. Irving Adventures Capt. Bonneville I. 22 We shall now state a few particulars..to prepare him for the circumstances of our narrative. 1895 Bookman Oct. 25/2 This history..is..a straightforward, readable narrative. 1915 J. Buchan Thirty-nine Steps i. 27 It was the wildest sort of narrative, but I had heard in my time many steep tales. 1927 C. A. Lindbergh ‘We’ ix. 177 This narrative is a record of events, not an analysis. 1981 B. A. Farrell Standing of Psychoanalysis v. 68 Freud will then have good grounds to believe that at least the main part of this narrative about L. is true. b. Literary Criticism. The part of a text, esp. a work of fiction, which represents the sequence of events, as distinguished from that dealing with dialogue, description, etc.; narration as a literary method or genre.narrative is sometimes used to refer to the story as it is supposed to have taken place, whereas plot is used to refer to the way in which the story is revealed. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narration or story-telling taling1382 storyingc1449 narrationc1450 tale-telling1556 storytelling1681 narrative1843 yarn-spinning1867 narrativity1971 1843 tr. J.-J. Rousseau in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 54 28/2 Recitative is the means of union between melody and speech, by whose aid, that which is merely dialogue becomes recital or narrative. a1878 B. Taylor Stud. German Lit. (1879) vii. 240 The narrative continually breaks into dialogue. 1936 C. S. Lewis Allegory of Love i. 1 It is essential to this form that the literal narrative and the significacio should be separable. 1951 Kenyon Rev. 13 102 Properly used as critical terms, an author's narrative is his linear movement; his meaning is the integrity of his completed form. 1960 Ess. in Crit. 10 256 But in this passage, of course, James isn't in the ordinary sense making abstract or general statements; it's narrative, not expository prose. 1991 E. J. Smyth Postmodernism & Contemp. Fiction iii. 64 She abandons the conventions of linear narrative, normal chronology, plot and characterization. c. In structuralist and post-structuralist theory: a representation of a history, biography, process, etc., in which a sequence of events has been constructed into a story in accordance with a particular ideology; esp. in grand narrative n. [after French grand récit (1979 in the passage translated in quot. 1984)] a story or representation used to give an explanatory or justificatory account of a society, period, etc. ΚΠ 1977 S. Heath tr. R. Barthes Image, Music, Text 79 Narrative [1966 le récit] is international, transhistorical, transcultural: it is simply there, like life itself. 1984 G. Bennington & B. Massumi tr. J.-F. Lyotard Postmodern Condition p. xxiii I will use the term modern to designate any science that legitimates itself with reference to a metadiscourse of this kind making an explicit appeal to some grand narrative. 1991 Past & Present Aug. 120 In historical accounts of Third World countries.., where there are data relating to the emergence of politics, they are generally concealed behind the dominant narratives of the state and nationalism. 2000 C. Brunsdon Feminist, Housewife & Soap Opera 6 This autobiographical turn is not currently unusual in critical intellectual work, assailed as its practitioners are by..a reluctance to appear to endorse the grand narratives which might permit an impersonal voice. 3. As a mass noun: the practice or art of narration or storytelling; material for narration. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] spellc888 talec1000 telling?c1225 relationc1390 fablec1400 collationc1430 deliverance1431 narrationc1449 exposition1460 recounting1485 deducing1530 recital1565 delivery1592 reporting1603 retailing1609 recountmenta1616 narrative1748 narrating1802 deducement1820 recountal1825 retailment1832 1748 Ld. Chesterfield Let. 19 Oct. (1932) (modernized text) IV. 1245 To have frequent recourse to narrative betrays great want of imagination. 1778 F. Burney Evelina II. xxix. 249 What have I to write? Narrative does not offer, nor does a lively imagination supply the deficiency. 1782 W. Cowper Conversation in Poems 223 The path of narrative with care pursue. 1868 W. E. Gladstone Juventus Mundi (1870) xi. 436 He might have done this didactically, or by way of narrative. 1977 Time Out 28 Jan. 33/3 The film pulls all its political punches, settling instead for sentimental narrative. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online June 2022). narrativeadj. Brit. /ˈnarətɪv/, U.S. /ˈnɛrədɪv/ Forms: late Middle English narratyf, 1600s narratiue, 1600s– narrative. Origin: Of multiple origins. Partly a borrowing from French. Partly a borrowing from Latin. Etymons: French narratif; Latin narrativus. Etymology: < Middle French narratif (mid 15th cent.; compare earlier narratif , noun: see narrative n.) and its etymon post-classical Latin narrativus suited to narration (4th–5th centuries) < classical Latin narrāt- , past participial stem of narrāre narrate v. + -īvus -ive suffix. 1. a. That narrates or recounts, that tells a story; of or concerned with narration; having the character or form of narration.In quot. c1450: spec. historical, biographical. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [adjective] narrativec1450 narratory1586 narrational1858 tell-a-story1865 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > relating to narration or story-telling narrativec1450 storytelling1759 diegetic1970 society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [adjective] > narrating or telling stories narrativea1652 storytelling1759 c1450 J. Capgrave Life St. Augustine (1910) 31 (MED) It is cleped þe book of þe quantite of þe soule..in whech book many sotil þinggis ar touchid whech long not to þis maner of wryting þat is cleped narratyf. 1605 F. Bacon Of Aduancem. Learning ii. sig. Ee2^v The diuision of Poesie which is aptest in the proprietie thereof..is into poesie narrative, representative, and allvsive. View more context for this quotation a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) vi. ii. 182 The representation of Divine things by some Sensible images or some Narrative voice must needs be in them both. 1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 297. ⁋6 The Paradise Lost is an Epic or a Narrative Poem. 1752 S. Johnson Rambler No. 188. ⁋5 No style of conversation is more extensively acceptable than the narrative. 1844 L. Hunt Imagination & Fancy 20 The greatest of all narrative writers. 1871 J. Bryce Holy Rom. Empire (ed. 3) Pref. A narrative history of the countries included in the Romano-Germanic Empire. 1931 Times Lit. Suppl. 22 Oct. 809/2 Like the work of so many of the ‘social’ novelists of his period, it is to a large extent a sort of narrative journalism of contemporary events. 2000 World & I (Electronic ed.) Sept. A much more mature and absorbing book, full of narrative interest. b. Art. Representing a story through the medium of painting or similar art forms. ΚΠ 1902 R. Fry Let. 10 Oct. (1972) I. 196 Already he has Giovanni Bellini's farmito colours..and he has too the pure narrative style..of the great Venetians. 1962 Listener 22 Feb. 335/2 That rich outpouring of ‘narrative’ painting which began in England with the Bayeux tapestry, continued through the missals and Books of Hours, to be picked up again by Hogarth, Rowlandson, and Gillray. 1988 Smithsonian Stud. Amer. Art Fall 63/1 Far from considering this image as the end of a narrative sequence, Homer has used this painting..to establish a moral choice for the viewer. †2. Given to narration; garrulous, talkative. Also (in extended use): eloquent of. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > loquacity or talkativeness > [adjective] wordyeOE talewisec1200 i-worded?c1225 babblinga1250 cacklinga1250 chatteringa1250 speakfula1250 word-wooda1250 of many wordsc1350 janglingc1374 tatteringc1380 tongueya1382 ganglinga1398 readya1400 jargaunt1412 talkative1432 open-moutheda1470 clattering1477 trattling?a1513 windy1513 popping1528 smatteringa1529 rattle?1529 communicablea1533 blab1552 gaggling1553 long-tongued?1553 prittle-prattle1556 pattering1558 talking1560 bobling1566 gabbling1566 verbal1572 piet1573 twattling1573 flibber gibber1575 babblative1576 tickle-tongued1577 tattling1581 buzzing1587 long-winded1589 multiloquous1591 discoursive1599 rattling1600 glib1602 flippant1605 talkful1605 nimble-tongued1608 tongue-ripe1610 fliperous1611 garrulous?1611 futile1612 overspeaking1612 feather-tongueda1618 tongue-free1617 long-breatheda1628 well-breathed1635 multiloquious1640 untongue-tied1640 unretentive1650 communicative1651 linguacious1651 glibbed1654 largiloquent1656 multiloquent1656 parlagea1657 loose-clacked1661 nimble-chop1662 twit-twat1665 over-talkativea1667 loquacious1667 loudmouth1668 conversable1673 gash1681 narrative1681 chappy1693 apposite1701 conversative1703 gabbit1710 lubricous1715 gabby?1719 ventose1721 taleful1726 chatty?1741 blethering1759 renable1781 fetch-fire1784 conversational1799 conversant1803 gashing1808 long-lunged1815 talky1815 multi-loquacious1819 prolegomenous1822 talky-talky1831 nimble-mouthed1836 slipper1842 speechful1842 gassy1843 in great force1849 yattering1859 babbly1860 irreticent1864 chattable1867 lubrical1867 chattery1869 loose-mouthed1872 chinny1883 tongue-wagging1885 yappy1909 big-mouthed1914 loose-lipped1919 ear-bashing1945 ear-bending1946 yackety-yacking1953 nattering1959 yacking1959 woofy1960 1681 N. Luttrell Diary in Brief Hist. Relation State Affairs (1857) I. 111 Mr. John Smith (called Narrative Smith). 1693 J. Dryden Disc. conc. Satire in J. Dryden et al. tr. Juvenal Satires p. ix The tattling Quality of Age, which, as Sir William Davenant says, is always Narrative. 1725 A. Pope tr. Homer Odyssey I. iii. 80 The banquet done, the Narrative old man Thus mild, the pleasing conference began. 1826 J. J. Conybeare Illustr. Anglo-Saxon Poetry 68 The narrative old monarch proceeds to state that..Heribald was accidentally killed. 1866 ‘G. Eliot’ Felix Holt II. xxviii. 193 There was ample space on the hearth—accommodation for narrative bagmen or boxmen. 1882 Fraser's Mag. 26 503 There are the decayed taverns..where stone and wood and lime are narrative of hoary antiquity. Compounds narrative line n. a consecutively developed storyline. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account talec1200 historyc1230 sawc1320 tellinga1325 treatisec1374 chroniclec1380 process?1387 legendc1390 prosec1390 pistlec1395 treatc1400 relationc1425 rehearsal?a1439 report?a1439 narrationc1449 recorda1450 count1477 redec1480 story1489 recount1490 deductiona1532 repetition1533 narrative1539 discourse1546 account1561 recital1561 enarrative1575 legendary1577 enarration1592 recite1594 repeat1609 texture1611 recitation1614 rendera1616 prospect1625 recitement1646 tell1743 diegesis1829 récit1915 narrative line1953 1953 Shakespeare Q. 4 339 Here [i.e. in Much Ado about Nothing] three divergent narrative lines blend to portray man's delusions as laughable. 1972 Guardian 16 Feb. 12/3 I pictured a story with every western cliche in it... Why have a straight narrative line when everybody knows the story? 1999 Res. Afr. Lit. 30 117 She chooses her own husband and ends unhappy. This is a narrative line that can be realized in an almost infinite number of ways. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1539adj.c1450
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