a. Obs. Also storyal. [Aphetic var. of HISTORIAL. Cf. It. storiale.] Of, pertaining to or of the nature of history.
c. 1385. Chaucer, L. G. W., 702. And this is storyal soth, it is no fable.
c. 1449. Pecock, Repr., III. vii. 320. And here y make an eende of Scripture storial ensaumpling.
c. 1450. J. Shirley’s Cron. Chaucier, heading, Þe nyene worshipfullest Ladyes þat in alle cronycles and storyal bokes haue beo founden of trouþe of constaunce and vertuous or reproched womanhode.
1575. Laneham, Lett. (1871), 26. Certain good harted men of Couentrée … made petition that they moought renu noow their olld storiall sheaw.
