storial

English

Etymology

Adjective

storial (comparative more storial, superlative most storial)

(obsolete) historical

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

Anagrams

Tailors, Triolas, oralist, sliotar, striola, tailor's, tailors

Middle English

Alternative forms

storyal

Etymology

Either from storie +‎ -al or a shortening of historial.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˌstɔriˈaːl/, /ˈstɔrial/

Adjective

storial (rare)

Historical, genuine, factual.
- 1386, Chaucer, “v. 702”, in The Legend of Good Women‎:
  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 quote)
Related to history or historical events.

Descendants

English: storial (obsolete)

References

“storiā̆l, adj.” in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 2019-04-05.

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