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Chronicle

noun

A record or narrative description of past events. Synonyms: account, history, story. "He gave an inaccurate account of the plot to kill the president" , "The story of exposure to lead"

verb

(past & past part. chronicled; pres. part. chronicling)

Record in chronological order; make a historical record.

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... cross with another individual is occasionally—perhaps at very long intervals—indispensable. We refer the reader to the section on the intercrossing of individuals (pp. 96—101), and also to an article in the Gardeners' Chronicle a year and a half ago, for the details of a very interesting contribution to science, irrespective of theory. In domestication, this intercrossing may be prevented; and in this prevention lies the art of producing varieties. But "the art itself is ...

— Darwiniana - Essays and Reviews Pertaining to Darwinism • Asa Gray

... through all the summers of his life; he recalled tenderly that first summer at Cairnforth, when, no longer pent up between walls and roofs, or dragged about in carriages, he learned, by Molcolm's aid and under Helen's teaching, to chronicle time in different ways; first by the hyacinths and primroses vanishing, and giving place to the wild roses—those exquisite deep-red roses which belong especially to this country-side; then by the woods—his own woods—growing fragrant with innumerable honeysuckles; and ...

— A Noble Life • Dinah Maria Mulock Craik

... celebrity during their lives. The newspapers chronicle every word and movement. But the fame of the Philosopher and ...

— The Pleasures of Life • Sir John Lubbock

... known in some detail from the year 722 B.C., because with this year begins Confucius' Springs and Autumns, which is a chronicle of the State of Lu, in which Confucius ...

— The Problem of China • Bertrand Russell

... SIR: The Chronicle of this morning contains a correspondence between the President and General Grant reported from the War Department in answer to a resolution ...

— A Compilation of the Messages and Papers of the Presidents - Section 2 (of 2) of Volume 6: Andrew Johnson • James D. Richardson

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