单词 | storier |
释义 | storiern.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > historical narrative > [noun] > historian historian?a1439 historierc1449 storierc1449 story writer?c1475 histographera1513 historician1531 historiographer1542 historic1599 historianess1683 memorialist1711 logographer1846 logograph1862 c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 351 Forwhi noon fundamental cronicler or storier writith therof, saue Girald. a1500 (?a1425) tr. Secreta Secret. (Lamb.) 100 Swylk er customyd to be wel spekyng, wel taght, curteys, and good storyers. 1532 (c1385) Usk's Test. Loue in Wks. G. Chaucer iii. f. ccclixv In goodnes of gentyl manlyche speche, without any maner of nycite of starieres ymagynacion..he passeth al other makers. a1575 N. Harpsfield Treat. Divorce Henry VIII (1878) (modernized text) 232 We now add Bede himself, whom the said storyers do follow. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of 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. a1640 T. Jackson Wks. (1673) III. 718 Had the spirit of God been storyer of their lives, we should have had notice of their often trippings. 2. Chiefly somewhat literary. A person who tells stories; the teller of a particular story; = storyteller n. 1b, storyteller n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > prose > narrative or story > [noun] > narrator or story-teller tale-tellera1387 talesman?a1505 historian1586 fabulator1604 tales-master1656 narrator1722 spinner1770 storier1816 Scheherazade1851 yarn-spinner1865 yarn-teller1891 yarn-slinger1897 1816 R. Southey Poet's Pilgrimage to Waterloo ii. iii. 46 Even as the Eagle (ancient storyers say) When faint with years she feels her flagging wing, Soars up toward the mid sun's piercing ray. 1827 B. Disraeli Vivian Grey III. v. xiii. 254 ‘But it's a very curious story.’.. ‘Oh! so is every story, according to the storier.’ 1830 B. Disraeli Let. 25 Aug. in Home Lett. (1885) vii. 54 Some smoking in sedate silence, some telling their beads, some squatting round a storier. 1869 Temple Bar Nov. 45 Such were the fitting hour and mood in which..to drink in the honeyed rhythm of this melodious storier. 1918 W. J. Leach Let. 20 Sept. in Poems & War Lett. (1922) ii. 191 Now I can see how hard it was for soldiers..in the Civil War to keep from becoming obnoxious war storiers. 1997 G. Vizenor Hotline Healers viii. 133 She returned as a cultural anthropologist to interview native storiers..for a graduate course at the university. 3. English regional. A liar, a fibber; = storyteller n. 3. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > [noun] > a liar > petty storyteller1696 fibber1723 storier1835 story1847 fibster1848 fib1861 taradiddler1880 1835 Finesse II. xxv. 126 It's a fib; ay, that it is: but I remember Robert Rainer was ever a storier. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Story-teller, Storier, a liar. The terms Story-teller, Storier, and Liar, express the three degrees of comparison, Liar being the worst. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 52 She's a storier. Why she was sayin' there was a ghost. 1995 J. M. Sims-Kimbrey Wodds & Doggerybaw: Lincs. Dial. Dict. 176/2 A liar is a liar per se (a storier). This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2015; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.c1449 |
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