rare. [f. STORY sb.1 + -FY.] trans. To picture, delineate or record (a historical event or fact); to celebrate in history or story. Also absol. Hence Storifying vbl. sb. (attrib.)
1616. J. Lane, Contn. Sqr.’s T., III. 320. And looke what natures selfe hathe not supplyed, shall by queint painters hand bee storifyed [in Cambuscan’s theatre].
1675. J. Smith, Chr. Relig. Appeal, I. 70. His third [year] was so barren of Action, had so little wind stirring: as Tacitus complains his storifying Vein is becalm’d, his Pen can find no Pasturage in that Years Occurrences.
1830. Fraser’s Mag., I. 44. So ’tis plain that a sure means of gaining fame malice is; And many’s the name which through it has been storified.
