historionomer

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English

Etymology

From Ancient Greek ἱστωριονόμος (histōrionómos), from ἱστορία (historía, “history”) + -νόμος (-nómos), from νέμω (némō, “tend to something”).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˌhɪstəɹiˈɒnəmə(ɹ)/, /hɪˌstɔːɹiˈɒnəmə(ɹ)/

Noun

historionomer (plural historionomers)

  1. One versed in the phenomena of history and the laws controlling them.
    • 1853–1864, James Russell Lowell, “(please specify the page)”, in Fireside Travels, Boston, Mass.: Ticknor and Fields, published 1864, →OCLC:
      And historionomers will have measured accurately the sidereal years of races.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “historionomer”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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