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Story v. t. (past & past part. storied; pres. part. 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." "It is storied of the brazen colossus in Rhodes, that it was seventy cubits high."

adjective

Storied adj.

Told in a story.

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." "Can storied urn, or animated bust, Back to its mansion call the fleeting breath?"

Having (such or so many) stories; chiefly in composition; as, a two-storied house.

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Etymology of 'Storied'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Storied" Quotes from Famous Books

... St. Mary Bathurst without stopping, and anchored at Albreda. It is not a very important factory. I was received by four white men and a crowd of negroes. The white inhabitant stretched on a couch under the veranda of the one-storied house in which he dwells, has no society beyond that of the signare, who acts provisionally as his wife, and the crowd of slaves of both sexes who go and come around him. Fever lurks on every side, and carries him off on the slightest imprudence. But it is a rich country, for it is inhabited by ...

— Memoirs • Prince De Joinville

... the High Street, not many yards from the Bull, is a Tudor two-storied, stone-built house, with latticed windows and gables. This is the Charity founded by the will of Richard Watts in 1579, to give lodging and entertainment for one night, and fourpence each, to "six ...

— Dickens-Land • J. A. Nicklin

... unnoticeable aspect. Getting into the interior of the town, however, you find the streets very crooked, and some of them very narrow. I saw one place where it seemed possible to shake hands from one jutting storied old house to another. There were whole streets of the same kind of houses, one story impending over another, such as used to be familiar to me in Salem, and in some streets of Boston. In fact, the whole aspect of the town—its irregularity and ...

— Passages From the English Notebooks, Complete • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... of a specific for her malady endured travelling at speed to the ridges of the Italian frontier, across France—she simply remembered Nevil: he was distant; he had no place in the storied landscape, among the images of Art and the names of patient great men who bear, as they bestow, an atmosphere other than earth's for those adoring them. If at night, in her sleep, he was a memory that conducted her through scenes which were lightnings, the cool swift ...

— The Shaving of Shagpat • George Meredith

... the object of so many witticisms was a small three-storied structure, containing on the ground floor a dining-room and parlour, on the next a bed-chamber and dressing-room, and on the upper floor Balzac's working room. A balcony supported by brick pillars completely surrounded the second story, and the staircase—the famous staircase—ascended ...

— Honor de Balzac • Albert Keim and Louis Lumet

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