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stories
(mass) | stories
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stories
(encz) | stories,příběhy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
Stories
(gcide) | Story \Sto"ry\, n.; pl. Stories. [OF. estor['e], estor['e]e,
built, erected, p. p. of estorer to build, restore, to store.
See Store, v. t.]
A set of rooms on the same floor or level; a floor, or the
space between two floors. Also, a horizontal division of a
building's exterior considered architecturally, which need
not correspond exactly with the stories within. [Written also
storey.]
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Note: A story comprehends the distance from one floor to
another; as, a story of nine or ten feet elevation. The
spaces between floors are numbered in order, from below
upward; as, the lower, second, or third story; a house
of one story, of two stories, of five stories.
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Story post (Arch.), a vertical post used to support a floor
or superincumbent wall.
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stories
(mass) | stories
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histories
(encz) | histories,historie pl. Zdeněk Brož |
stories
(encz) | stories,příběhy n: pl. Zdeněk Brož |
tell stories
(encz) | tell stories,vymýšlet si [fráz.] např. "I knew he was telling me
stories." Pino |
Consistories
(gcide) | Consistory \Con*sis"to*ry\ (? or ?; 277) n.; pl. Consistories.
[L. consistorium a place of assembly, the place where the
emperor's council met, fr. consistere: cf. F. consistoire,
It. consistorio. See Consist.]
1. Primarily, a place of standing or staying together; hence,
any solemn assembly or council.
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To council summons all his mighty peers,
Within thick clouds and dark tenfold involved,
A gloomy consistory. --Milton.
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2. (Eng. Ch.) The spiritual court of a diocesan bishop held
before his chancellor or commissioner in his cathedral
church or elsewhere. --Hook.
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3. (R. C. Ch.) An assembly of prelates; a session of the
college of cardinals at Rome.
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Pius was then hearing of causes in consistory.
--Bacon.
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4. A church tribunal or governing body.
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Note: In some churches, as the Dutch Reformed in America, a
consistory is composed of the minister and elders of an
individual church, corresponding to a Presbyterian
church session, and in others, as the Reformed church
in France, it is composed of ministers and elders,
corresponding to a presbytery. In some Lutheran
countries it is a body of clerical and lay officers
appointed by the sovereign to superintend
ecclesiastical affairs.
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5. A civil court of justice. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Histories
(gcide) | History \His"to*ry\, n.; pl. Histories. [L. historia, Gr.
'istori`a history, information, inquiry, fr. 'istwr, "istwr,
knowing, learned, from the root of ? to know; akin to E. wit.
See Wit, and cf. Story.]
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1. A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts
and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such
information; a narrative; a description; a written record;
as, the history of a patient's case; the history of a
legislative bill.
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2. A systematic, written account of events, particularly of
those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art,
and usually connected with a philosophical explanation of
their causes; a true story, as distinguished from a
romance; -- distinguished also from annals, which relate
simply the facts and events of each year, in strict
chronological order; from biography, which is the record
of an individual's life; and from memoir, which is history
composed from personal experience, observation, and
memory.
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Histories are as perfect as the historian is wise,
and is gifted with an eye and a soul. --Carlyle.
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For aught that I could ever read,
Could ever hear by tale or history. --Shak.
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What histories of toil could I declare! --Pope.
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History piece, a representation in painting, drawing, etc.,
of any real event, including the actors and the action.
Natural history, a description and classification of
objects in nature, as minerals, plants, animals, etc., and
the phenomena which they exhibit to the senses.
Syn: Chronicle; annals; relation; narration.
Usage: History, Chronicle, Annals. History is a
methodical record of important events which concern a
community of men, usually so arranged as to show the
connection of causes and effects, to give an analysis
of motive and action etc. A chronicle is a record of
such events, conforming to the order of time as its
distinctive feature. Annals are a chronicle divided up
into separate years. By poetic license annals is
sometimes used for history.
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Justly C[ae]sar scorns the poet's lays;
It is to history he trusts for praise. --Pope.
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No more yet of this;
For 't is a chronicle of day by day,
Not a relation for a breakfast. --Shak.
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Many glorious examples in the annals of our
religion. --Rogers.
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