histor-, histori- +

1. The knowledge or study of history.
2. A discourse on history.

Someone who is versed in the principles that regulate the course of history.

To record in or as history.

1. The study of the past through written records which are compared, judged for truth, placed in chronological sequence, and interpreted in light of preceding, contemporary, and subsequent events.
2. A systematically written account comprising a chronological record of events (as affecting a city, state, nation, institution, science, art, etc.) and usually including a philosophical explanation of the causes and origins of such events.
3. The branch of knowledge dealing with past events.
4. A continuous, systematic narrative of past events relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc.; usually written as a chronological account.
5. The aggregate of past events.
6. The record of past events and times; especially, in connection with the human race.
7. A past notable for its important, unusual, or interesting events: "a ship with a history."
8. Acts, ideas, or events that will or can shape the course of the future; immediate but significant happenings: "Firsthand observers of our space program see history in the making."
9. A systematic account of any set of natural phenomena without particular reference to time.
10. A drama representing historical events: "Shakespeare's comedies, histories, and tragedies."
11. Etymology: Greek historein, "learning by inquiry, knowledge obtained by inquiry; account of one's inquiries; narrative, historical narrative; history" through Latin historia, "narrative story, narration, account" through Old French and Middle English histoire, "past events, past knowledge".

1. Historical study that addresses a specific or localized subject; a historical account of this nature, a case study.
2. A short account, a "potted" history.

History mixed with myth; a mythologized version of history.

1. Widely erudite.
2. Wide or varied learning.

Pertaining to or referring to a polyhistor or a person of great and varied learning.

A reference to any period for which there is no documentary evidence and the study of cultures before written history or of more recent cultures lacking formal historical records.

A term that refers to prehistory which differs from history in dealing with the activities of a society or culture, not of the individual; it is restricted to the material evidence that has survived.

1. Any period for which there is no documentary evidence and the study of cultures before written history or of more recent cultures lacking formal historical records.
2. In a strict sense, "history" is an account of the past recovered from written records, but such an account can be prepared from other sources, notably archaeology.
3. The term prehistory was coined by Daniel Wilson in 1851 to cover the story of man's development before the appearance of writing.
4. It is succeeded by protohistory, the period for which we have some records but must still rely largely on archaeological evidence to give us a coherent account.
5. Prehistory differs from history in dealing with the activities of a society or culture, not of the individual; it is restricted to the material evidence that has survived.

1. The period in any area following prehistory and preceding the appearance of coherent history derived from written records. It is a transitional time period between prehistory and recorded history, for which both archaeological and historical data are employed.
2. A time when non-literate aboriginal peoples had access to European goods but did not have face-to-face contact.
3. Periods during which historical documentation is fragmentary or not directly from the society being studied.
4. The period of 1250-1519 AD in Mesoamerica, which followed the Postclassic and ends just before the Spanish conquest (there are historic documents for this period).

False, pretended, counterfeit, spurious, or sham history.

The combined use of psychology (especially psychoanalysis) and history in the writing, especially of biography.

Apparently historical; seeming to be historical.