Also 7 analyst, -ist. [f. ANNAL sb. + -IST, or a. Fr. annaliste.] A writer of annals, a chronicler of events year by year.
1611. Cotgr., Annaliste, an Annalist; a writer of yearely Chronicles.
a. 1623. Sir G. Buck, Rich. III. (1646), 77. The weaker analysts and chroniclers.
1644. Evelyn, Mem. (1857), I. 114. In it is buried Cæsar Baronius, the great annalist.
a. 1683. Oldham, Wks. & Rem. (1685), 15. Of which dull Annalists in story tell.
1811. J. Grant, Hist. Eng. Ch., I. 296. The annalists wrote the records of the year.
1858. Buckle, Civil. (1869), II. vii. 421. The historian sinks into the annalist … instead of solving a problem, he merely paints a picture.
b. ellipt. and transf.
1642. Howell, For. Trav. (Arb.), 23. The manner and method in reading of Annalists.
1660. (title) The Faithful Analist or Epitome of the English History … to this present Yeer 1660.
1748. Hartley, Observ. Man, II. ii. ¶ 24. Learned Men who had spent their Lives in the Study of Annalists.
