Storial

//ˈstɔːɹɪ.əl// adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Synonym of historical. archaic, historical

    "And so they came / In beautiful Liberty’s beautiful name. / And has no storial hand / Kept note of how the waiting land / Hailed the new-type man, square to the New World’s need, / Who thought no thought into a deed / That had no warrant in his creed? / Nay, none."

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"And so they came / In beautiful Liberty’s beautiful name. / And has no storial hand / Kept note of how the waiting land / Hailed the new-type man, square to the New World’s need, / Who thought no thought into a deed / That had no warrant in his creed? / Nay, none."

Etymology

From Middle English storial, either from storie + -al or a shortening of historial. By surface analysis, story + -al. Piecewise doublet of historial.

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