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a. (abbreviation of historical English) n. (abbreviation of historian English)
Usage examples of "hist.".
According to the ecclesiastical critics, who hate Sebastian, the praise of Zosimus is disgrace, (Tillemont, Hist. des Empereurs, tom.
According to the Byzantine historians they were a branch of the Ougres, (Thunmann, Hist. of the People to the East of Europe,) but they have more resemblance to the Turks.
Note: To the authors who have illustrated the obscure history of the Jewish and Abyssinian kingdoms in Homeritis may be added Schultens, Hist. Joctanidarum.
Testis omnium gentium, praeterquam Romanorum, absentia mulierum, quae sanctorum apostolorum limina orandi gratia timent visere, cum nonnullas ante dies paucos, hunc audierint conjugatas, viduas, virgines vi oppressisse, (Liutprand, Hist. l.
The Arabic writers, who have treated the subject with the zeal of patriotism or devotion: the extracts of Pocock (Specimen Hist. Arabum, p.
Barnabus, and which had been started as early as the time of Irenaeus, by some Ebionite heretics, (Beausobre, Hist. du Manicheisme, tom.
The edifices of Baalbec were constructed by the fairies or the genii, Hist. de Timour Bec, tom.
Cardonne, Hist. de l'Afrique et de l'Espagne, sous la Domination des Arabs, tom.
In the year 1104 Coloman reduced the maritine country as far as Trau and Saloma, (Katona, Hist. Crit.