Historical

/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/ · adjective

Meaning

Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions..

Definitions by Sense

1. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
2. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
3. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
4. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":
5. A historical romance.

Example Sentences

July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.

The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.

For in the contexte historicalle [Latin: In historico... contextu], the rewle off lyvenge and forme of vertues moralle and the incentiue of manhode ȝiffe grete resplendence thro the diligence of croniclers.

The family tree boasts an astonishing array of celebrated historical figures from the prophet Isaiah to Sir Isaiah Berlin, from Felix Mendelssohn to Karl Marx and Moses Montefiore. The list also includes Yehudi Menuhin, Helena Rubinstein, the Rothschilds and even Rosenstein himself.

Sith thou gaue to vs a floure most riall Redolent in cronicles with historicall syght.

The Royal Historical Society

The State Historical Society of Wisconsin

historical-political

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Word Forms

• more historical
• most historical
• historicall
• historicals

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