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
If a greater annalist than he do not arise to do justice to his merits, the fame even of Marlborough will never descend, at least in its full proportions, to future generations.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 57, No. 353, March 1845 by Various
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
Chastellain was no mere annalist, but proposed to fuse and shape his vast material to his own conclusions, in accordance with his political experience.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 5, Slice 8 "Chariot" to "Chatelaine" by Various
So late as the seventeenth century the annalist Mac Firbis discovered that many of the inhabitants of Connacht traced their descent to these same Firbolgs.
From Myths & Legends of the Celtic Race by T. W. (Thomas William) Rolleston
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