- Inanimate - Inanimate or dead - Inert - Destitute of life, or deprived of life; not containing,
or inhabited by, living beings or vegetation; dead, or apparently dead;
spiritless; powerless; dull; as, a lifeless carcass; lifeless matter; a
lifeless desert; a lifeless wine; a lifeless story.
- Annals - Chronicle - Past events - Record of past events - study of written records - A learning or knowing by inquiry; the knowledge of facts
and events, so obtained; hence, a formal statement of such information;
a narrative; a description; a written record; as, the history of a
patient's case; the history of a legislative bill. - A systematic, written account of events, particularly of
those affecting a nation, institution, science, or art, and usually
connected with a philosophical explanation of their causes; a true
story, as distinguished from a romance; -- distinguished also from
annals, which relate simply the facts and events of each year, in
strict chronological order; from biography, which is the record of an
individual's life; and from memoir, which is history composed from
personal experience, observation, and memory.