history

History repeats itself if we don’t learn from its mistakes.

With some of it on the south and more of it on the north of the great main thoroughfare that connects Aldgate and the East India Docks, St. Bede's at this period of its history was perhaps the poorest and most miserable parish in the East End of London.

1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter VII, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:

Few concepts are as emotionally charged as that of race. The word conjures up a mixture of associations—culture, ethnicity, genetics, subjugation, exclusion and persecution. But is the tragic history of efforts to define groups of people by race really a matter of the misuse of science, the abuse of a valid biological concept?

2012 March-April, Jan Sapp, “Race Finished”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, page 164:

So, we have a shared history - we will also have a shared future.

2017 June 24, James O'Shea, quoting Gerry Adams, “BREAKING: Sinn Fein President Gerry Adams says end to partition of Ireland “in a few short years””, in IrishCentral:

He teaches history at the university.

History will not look kindly on these tyrants.

He dreams of an invention that will make history.

History and experience act as a filter that can distort as much as elucidate. It is largely forgotten now, overlooked in the one-line description of Tony Blair and George W Bush as the men who lied about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, but there was a wider context to their conviction.

2013 September 6, Peter Beaumont, “Lessons of past cast shadows over Syria”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 13, page 18:

The branch of knowledge that studies the past; the assessment of notable events.

in all of human history and prehistory

in all recorded history

The portion of the past that is known and recorded by this field of study, as opposed to all earlier and unknown times that preceded it (prehistory).

a long and sordid history

What is your medical history?

The family's history includes events best forgotten.

[I]n the 575 days since [Oscar] Pistorius shot dead his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp, there has been an unseemly scramble to construct revisionist histories, to identify evidence beneath that placid exterior of a pugnacious, hair-trigger personality.

2014 October 21, Oliver Brown, “Oscar Pistorius jailed for five years”, in The Daily Telegraph (Sport):

(countable) A set of events involving an entity.

I really enjoyed Shakespeare's tragedies more than his histories.

a short history of post-Columbian colonization

(countable) A record or narrative description of past events.

A personal medical history is required for the insurance policy.

He has a history of cancer in his family.

This diagnosis is usually based solely on the history and physical examination, although laboratory tests are occasionally also obtained.

(countable, medicine) A list of past and continuing medical conditions of an individual or family.

I visited a great site yesterday but forgot the URL. Luckily, I didn't clear my history.

When you do that, the browser window has no browser history, so it doesn't report a referrer page to the first site you visit.

2006, Todd Stauffer, Kirk McElhearn, Mastering Mac OS X, John Wiley & Sons, →ISBN, page 344:

(countable, computing) A record of previous user events, especially of visited web pages in a browser.

I told him that if he doesn't get his act together, he's history.

(informal) Something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant.

There is too much history between them for them to split up now.

He has had a lot of history with the police.

(uncountable) Shared experience or interaction.

You are witnessing history!

We have a new president: Barack Obama. I never thought a black man would be elected. It's exciting! It's history!

2015, Amanda Berry, Gina DeJesus, Hope: A Memoir of Survival in Cleveland:

(uncountable) A historically significant event.

en-noun

history (countable and uncountable, plural histories)

histories (plural)
Hx (alternative)
hx (alternative)
historie (alternative)
hystory (alternative)
hystorie (alternative)

Pitcairn-Norfolk: histrei

mediese geskiedenis

medicine: list of past and continuing medical conditions

geskiedenis

computing: record of previous user events

міну́лае

something that no longer exists or is no longer relevant

From Middle English historie, from Old French estoire, estorie (“chronicle, history, story”) (French histoire), from Latin historia, from Ancient Greek ἱστορίᾱ (historíā, “learning through research”), from ἱστορέω (historéō, “to research, inquire (and) record”), from ἵστωρ (hístōr, “the knowing, wise one”), from Proto-Indo-European *weyd- (“see, know”). Doublet of story and storey.
Attested in Middle English in 1393 by John Gower, Confessio Amantis, which was aimed at an educated audience familiar with French and Latin.


history

And therefore will hee wipe his Tables cleane,
And keepe no Tell-tale to his Memorie,
That may repeat, and Historie his losse

c. 1596–1599 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Second Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:

en-verb

history (third-person singular simple present histories, present participle historying, simple past and past participle historied)

histories (present singular third-person)
historying (participle present)
historied (participle past)
historied (past)
Hx (alternative)
hx (alternative)
historie (alternative)
hystory (alternative)
hystorie (alternative)