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annalist

American  
[an-l-ist] / ˈæn l ɪst /

noun

  1. a chronicler of events, especially yearly ones; historian.


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Etymology

Origin of annalist

1605–15; annal(s) + -ist, or < French annaliste

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For the first time since mid-March The Annalist index of wholesale commodity prices moved upward.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Annalist, index of cotton cloth production, though adjusted to season variations, last week stood at 74.8, up from its Depression low of 56.7%.

From Time Magazine Archive

The Annalist index rose but .3 to 92.5, a figure still below the 93.2 of July 12.

From Time Magazine Archive

But by last week the Annalist index "in U. S. dollars" was pushing into the highest ground in more than three years.

From Time Magazine Archive

Friar Clyn, the Franciscan Annalist, wrote of it:—“That pestilence deprived of human inhabitants, villages and cities, and castles and towns, so that there was scarcely found a man to dwell therein.”

From Mellifont Abbey, Co. Louth Its Ruins and Associations, a Guide and Popular History by Anonymous

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