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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • adjective Relating to annals or an annalist.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or characteristic of an annalist.

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  • adjective Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist.

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  • adjective Of or pertaining to annals

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  • adjective relating to annals

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Examples

  • Indeed, if we count the "Annals of the Empire," which he wrote to please the Duchess of Saxe-Gotha, he may rank also under the third remaining head among the annalistic historians.

    Voltaire 2007

  • In the thirteenth century, Pisa and Genoa had emerged as the two major powers in the area, and an account in an annalistic history of Genoa tells us of the 1277 sea battle between Genose and Pisan galleys that took place in view of the Sudak harbor.

    Interactive Dig Black Sea: From the Field: August 4, 2006 2006

  • T. Livius (Livy, 64 B.C.E. –12 C.E.) capped the annalistic tradition by writing a monumental history of Rome from its origin.

    3. Civil War and Renewal, 70 B.C.E.-14 C.E 2001

  • Several major works of historical scholarship date from this era, including Samguk sagi (History of the Three Kingdoms) by Kim Pu-sik (1075–1151), a thoroughly Confucian work written in the Chinese annalistic style; and Samguk yusa (Memorabilia of the Three Kingdoms) by the Buddhist monk Iryn (1206–89), which traced Korean history back to the legendary Tan'gun.

    b. Political, Social, and Cultural Patterns 2001

  • Despite Chen Shou's position and the availability of contemporary source material, great gaps still existed in certain parts of the record, most particularly with regard to Shu, but also evident in the sometimes overly terse reports on the activities of individual personalities and the vagueness with which events are dated both in the annalistic chapters and the biographies.

    Empresses and Consorts 1999

  • She became aware of my annalistic endeavors and asked me to show her side.

    The White Rose Cook, Glen 1985

  • The custom of producing annalistic notes about the chief events in

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Leonardo Bruni, and primarily in Florence, there developed a humanist historiography which went too far in its subservience to antiquity, breaking up the continuities of narrative and theme by its “annalistic” method, encouraging artifice by its restriction of vo - cabulary, and allowing rhetorical affections to carry it to a conventional kind of theatricality which pre - vented either the proper portrayal of men or the gen - uine interpretation of what had happened.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • Influ - ences from the Byzantine empire seem to have stimu - lated annalistic writing, extending to points of cultural history and to notes about unusual occurrences in na - ture, as in the work of al-Tabari at the beginning of the tenth century.

    HISTORIOGRAPHY HERBERT BUTTERFIELD 1968

  • The simplest and one of the oldest methods is the division by calendar centuries, decades, or years in annalistic fashion.

    Dictionary of the History of Ideas REN 1968

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