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  • noun Plural form of annalist.

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Examples

  • This would be consistent with her presence in the Annals of Ulster, as strong Irish connections could explain why the Ulster annalists thought it worth recording her death.

    Pictish female names Carla 2010

  • This would be consistent with her presence in the Annals of Ulster, as strong Irish connections could explain why the Ulster annalists thought it worth recording her death.

    Archive 2010-01-01 Carla 2010

  • Around the end of the ninth century the Irish annalists stop writing in Latin and start using Irish, so the name 'Picts' disappears.

    The Female Royal Line: matrilineal succession amongst the Picts? Carla 2008

  • This is due primarily to the influence of the Dominican annalists, who decried the loss of the Formosan Christians. 54 The first Dominican chronicles, written by Corcuera's enemy Diego de Aduarte, started the trend, which was later continued by the eighteenth-century historian Juan de la Concepción.

    How Taiwan Became Chinese 2006

  • I was on the conference call from Microsoft this morning, but they only answered questions from financial annalists.

    Microsoft-Yahoo: The deal of the dinos « BuzzMachine 2008

  • Most annalists believe that $200/barrel is not out of the question.

    Oil burden 2008

  • The dry bones of the ancient valley of annalists and chroniclers were made to live, and the great work of the reconstruction of the past was begun, with an alertness and perseverance that has not been surpassed even in an age of far purer and juster historical intelligence.

    Voltaire 2007

  • From there, we proceed via the great Roman historians Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus to the medieval annalists and chroniclers; on to the Florentine humanist historians, Machiavelli and Guicciardini; and then, via the Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions, to the self-styled professional historians of the 20th century.

    A History of Histories: Epics, Chronicles and Inquiries from Herodotus and Thucydides to the Twentieth Century 2007

  • From there, we proceed via the great Roman historians Livy, Sallust, and Tacitus to the medieval annalists and chroniclers; on to the Florentine humanist historians, Machiavelli and Guicciardini; and then, via the Enlightenment and the American and French Revolutions, to the self-styled professional historians of the 20th century.

    Archive 2007-12-01 2007

  • Minutiae ought to be collected by annalists, or in some kind of dictionaries where one might find them at need.

    Voltaire 2007

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