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Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- 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.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.; About history; depicting persons or events from history.
- Hagiography, the historical genre which is the subject of this week's seminar, comprises narratives concerned with the saints and their achievements, especially the miracles which God has performed through them and on their behalf.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- Sith thou gaue to vs a floure most riall Redolent in cronicles with historicall syght.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.; Set in the past.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.; Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.uncommon
- But concerning some persons of your neighbourhood... their Confession [of Faith] is rather an opinion than a true and sincere earnestness, for all of them are not that which they boast and glory to be; there may be many honest hearts among
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.; One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
- The historical present is often treated as a principal tense, but there are exceptions and sometimes both constructions appear in the same passage.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.; Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.obsolete
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- The Royal Historical Society
- The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.; Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
- The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.
- The idea that hagiography can be used to write about history, but in itself does not contain a historical sense, seems not to be limited to the study of India.
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Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.; Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.uncommon
- EB: We live in a special time of awakening. This is a historical moment for Egypt DS: In which many see you as a kind of messiah. EB: I neither can nor want to be a savior.
syn. historic · historial · bygone · former · old · ancient
ant. ahistorical · anachronistic · modern · contemporary · present · present-day · future · projected