English Dictionary: storied | by the DICT Development Group |
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Storied \Sto"ried\, a. [From {Story}.] 1. Told in a story. 2. Having a history; interesting from the stories which pertain to it; venerable from the associations of the past. Some greedy minion, or imperious wife, The trophied arches, storied halls, invade. --Pope. Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath? --Gray. 3. Having (such or so many) stories; -- chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Story \Sto"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Storied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Storying}.] To tell in historical relation; to make the subject of a story; to narrate or describe in story. How worthy he is I will leave to appear hereafter, rather than story him in his own hearing. --Shak. It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high. --Bp. Wilkins. |