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historical.

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

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Meaning & usage

adj/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/Received-Pronunciation/hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/General-American/hɪˈstɑɹɪkəl/New-York-City, Philadelphia
  1. 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.
  2. Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions. About history; depicting persons or events from history.

  3. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.

  4. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally. Set in the past.

  5. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally. Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.

    uncommon
  6. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally. One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).

  7. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally. Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.

    obsolete
  8. Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.

    The Royal Historical Society
    The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
  9. 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.

  10. 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
  11. Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically"

    historical-political
Where this word comes from

From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.

noun/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/Received-Pronunciation/hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/General-American/hɪˈstɑɹɪkəl/New-York-City, Philadelphia
  1. A historical romance.

Where this word comes from

From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.

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