To wound with storied griefs the filial ear.Īlexander Pope. It is storied of the brazen Colossus, in the island of Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high the thumbs of it being so big, that no man could grasp one of them about with both his arms. What the sage poets, taught by th’ heav’nly muse,Īnd rifted rocks whose entrance leads to hell. How worthy he is, I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. A floor a flight of rooms.Īvoid enormous heights of seven stories, as well as irregular forms, and the contrary fault of low distended fronts.Įtymology: from the noun 1.
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My maid left on the table one of her story-books, which I found full of strange impertinence, of poor servants who came to be ladies. Their feasts, their revels, and their am’rous flames. Of fairies, satyrs, and the nymphs their dames, This scene had some bold Greek or British bard These flaws and starts, would well become
An idle or trifling tale a petty fiction. In the road between Bern and Soleurre, a monument erected by the republick of Bern, tells us the story of an Englishman not to be met with in any of our own writers.Īddison. Small tale petty narrative account of a single incident. Governments that once made such a noise, as founded upon the deepest counsels and the strongest force yet by some slight miscarriage which let in ruin upon them, are now so utterly extinct, that nothing remains of them but a name nor are there the least traces of them to be found but only in story. The four great monarchies make the subject of ancient story, and are related by the Greek and Latin authors. To king Artaxerxes, thy servants Rathumnus the story-writer, and Smellius the scribe. My story which perhaps thou hast not heard. The fable of the dividing of the world between the three sons of Saturn, arose from the true story of the dividing of the earth between the three brethren the sons of Noah. Samuel Johnson's Dictionary (0.00 / 0 votes) Rate this definition:Įtymology: stœr, Saxon storie, Dutch storia, Italian ἱστοϱία. "he told a fib about eating his spinach" "how can I stop my child from telling stories?" "the report of his speech" "the story was on the 11 o'clock news" "the account of his speech that was given on the evening news made the governor furious"įib, story, tale, tarradiddle, taradiddle noun Report, news report, story, account, write up noun "a history of France" "he gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" "the story of exposure to lead" "his narrative was interesting" "Disney's stories entertain adults as well as children"Ī piece of fiction that narrates a chain of related eventsĪ structure consisting of a room or set of rooms at a single position along a vertical scaleĪ record or narrative description of past events
Princeton's WordNet (3.88 / 8 votes) Rate this definition:Ī message that tells the particulars of an act or occurrence or course of events presented in writing or drama or cinema or as a radio or television program
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