annalist
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Nevertheless, it is not for us to guestimate the workload of an annalist of the Floridian ancien regime.
From The Guardian ● Mar. 17, 2016
Pertaining to, or after the manner of, an annalist; as, the dry annalistic style.½A stiff annalistic method.¸
From Webster's Unabridged Dictionary by Noah Webster
Amidst the crowd, our annalist has selected the names, colors, and devices of twenty of the most conspicuous knights.
From Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, Vol. 16 by Various
Footnote 16: Nicholas Gentzkow, doctor of law, born December 6, 1502, the son of a shoemaker, according to the annalist Berckmann, and deceased February 24, 1576, was elected burgomaster of Stralsund in 1555.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
This was the same Mrs. Butler, formerly Mary Sigourney, whose reminiscences, the late Rev. Dr. Holmes, the learned and persevering annalist, has quoted in his "Memoir of the French Protestants."
From Olive Leaves Or, Sketches of Character by L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
