annalist
noun
a chronicler of events, especially yearly ones; historian.
Example Sentences
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He departed from the annalistic arrangement, and took a broader view of his subject, endeavouring to connect events together, and to trace the motives of actions.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
It was not until the end of the fourteenth century B. C. with the reign of Arik den ilu, that we have the appearance of actual annalistic inscriptions.
From Assyrian Historiography by A. T. (Albert Ten Eyck) Olmstead
Monk as he is, William discards the older ecclesiastical models and the annalistic form.
From History of the English People, Volume I Early England, 449-1071; Foreign Kings, 1071-1204; The Charter, 1204-1216 by John Richard Green
The contributors to Bede’s “History” would appear to have sent in their parts more or less in the annalistic form.
From Anglo-Saxon Literature by John Earle
On the one hand the epical, a realm of the most riotous activity of thought; on the other, the annalistic and genealogical, bald and bare to the last degree, a mere skeleton.
From Early Bardic Literature, Ireland. by Standish O'Grady
