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English Dictionary: storied by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
storied
adj
  1. having an illustrious past [syn: celebrated, historied, storied]
  2. having stories as indicated; "a six-storied building"
    Synonym(s): storied, storeyed
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.
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