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
Philochorus was a careful and systematic annalist of the early third century b.c., who used official documents and verified his statements.
From Euripedes and His Age by Gilbert Murray
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
The prejudices of an annalist have, occasionally, from long indulgence, become so habitual, that his offences, in this wise, become almost involuntary.
From Dealings with the Dead, Volume I (of 2) by A Sexton of the Old School
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
