storial
English edit
Etymology edit
From Middle English storial.
Pronunciation edit
- Rhymes: -ɔːɹɪəl
Adjective edit
storial (comparative more storial, superlative most storial)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “storial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)
Anagrams edit
Middle English edit
Alternative forms edit
Etymology edit
Either from storie + -al or a shortening of historial.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
storial (rare)
- Historical, genuine, factual.
- 1386, Chaucer, “v. 702”, in The Legend of Good Women[1]:
- And this is storial sooth, hit is no fable. Now, er I finde a man thus trewe and stable...
- (please add an English translation of this quotation)
- Related to history or historical events.
Descendants edit
- English: storial (obsolete)
References edit
- “storiā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-05.