annalist
noun
a chronicler of events, especially yearly ones; historian.
Example Sentences
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Both on his cylinder and in the annalistic tablet Cyrus, hitherto supposed to be a Persian and a Zoroastrian monotheist, appears as an Elamite and as a polytheist.
From Fresh Light from the Ancient Monuments by A. H. (Archibald Henry) Sayce
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
Much more fortunate is our position when we have to deal with the annalistic inscriptions.
From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead
It is also probable that these records were collected into a work, and that this work, while modernized by its frequent revisions, nevertheless preserved a great deal of original and genuine annalistic chronicle.
From The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius by Charles Thomas Cruttwell
Taking up first the Annals, we find that the annalistic documents from the reign may be divided into two general groups.
From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead
