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noun

Annals n. pl.

A relation of events in chronological order, each event being recorded under the year in which it happened. "Annals the revolution." "The annals of our religion."

Historical records; chronicles; history. "The short and simple annals of the poor." "It was one of the most critical periods in our annals."

sing. The record of a single event or item. "In deathless annal."

A periodic publication, containing records of discoveries, transactions of societies, etc.; as "Annals of Science."

Synonyms: History. See History.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Annals" Quotes from Famous Books

... travellers tell us about the King of Dahomey, or the Fejee Island people, or the short and simple annals of the celebrities recorded in the Newgate Calendar, and do not know just what to make of these brothers and sisters of the race; but I do not suppose an intelligence even as high as the angelic ...

— The Poet at the Breakfast Table • Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.

... successful. The hotel, a large building, hitherto a most ruinous speculation, began to realise enormous profits. In fact, the almighty dollar was spent as freely as the humble cent had been before this golden era in the annals ...

— Sketches From My Life - By The Late Admiral Hobart Pasha • Hobart Pasha

... notes commence even with Solomon, though here they are largely mixed with anecdotic chaff. They are afterwards found principally, almost exclusively, in the series of Judah. Several precise dates point to something of the nature of annals, /2/ ...

— Prolegomena to the History of Israel • Julius Wellhausen

... reign: "Its most instructive lesson has been drawn from the influence which its legislation has exercised on foreign nations. The unerring instinct of mankind has fixed on this period as one of the greatest eras in man's annals." ...

— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 4 • Various

... narrows appreciation, narrows attention also.'' The significant thing for us is that "the absolutely new does not stimulate''— a matter often overlooked. If I tell an uneducated man, with all signs of astonishment, that the missing books of Tacitus' "Annals'' have been discovered in Verona, or that a completely preserved Dinotherium has been cut out of the ice, or that the final explanation of the Martian canals has been made at Manora observatory,— all ...

— Robin Hood • J. Walker McSpadden

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