Historical

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  • adjective. undefined
  • adjective. Of or relating to history; concerned with past events.
  • adjective. Based on past events or set in the past.
  • adjective. Used in or providing evidence of the past.
  • adjective. Concerned with phenomena as they change through time.
  • adjective. Important or famous in history.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • In biology, ancestral or inherited, or due to conditions which existed in the past history of an organism.
  • Of, pertaining to, or connected with history; containing or of the nature or character of history: as, a historical poem; historical evidence; a historical chart.
  • Narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past, and mentioned or used at present only with reference to the past.
  • In philosophy, pertaining to things learned from the testimony of others or by our own senses.
  • In grammar, used in statement of past facts or narration of past events: as, a historical tense.
  • In hydrodynamics, the Lagrangian method, which considers the path of each particle.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • adjective. Pertaining to the history, to what happened in the past.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • adjective. belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
  • adjective. used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
  • adjective. having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary
  • adjective. of or relating to the study of history
  • Word Usage
    "I doubt whether the epithet _historical_ can properly apply to the character of Lady Macbeth; for though the subject of the play be taken from history, we never think of her with any reference to historical associations, as we do with regard to Constance, Volumnia, Katherine of"
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