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A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.\nThe historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.", "submean": [ "(literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.\n2017 December 8, Paul Hayward, \u201cSeminar VII: Hagiography\u201d, in Medieval Primary Sources\u2014Genre, Rhetoric and Transmission\u200e: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.\n2015 January 28, Mark Harris, \u201cHow 'Selma' Got Smeared\u201d, in Grantland\u200e:There is no acknowledgment\u2014because there is no understanding\u2014that sometimes historical fiction departs from facts in order to reach for more abstract, thematic, or complexly intuitive truths that even the most diligently fact-checked histories and biographies can fail to illuminate." ] }, { "mean": "Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.\n1521, Henry Bradshaw, The Holy Lyfe and History of Saynt Werburge, Ballad 1:Sith thou gaue to vs a floure most riall Redolent in cronicles with historicall syght.", "submean": [ "(literature, art) Set in the past.", "(uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.\n1886, Jacob Boehme translated by John Ellistone in Works, volume 1, epistle 2, \u00a749, page 39:\nBut concerning some persons of your neighbourhood... their Confession 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 them; but many of them are only historical and titular, and desire only to show themselves, and to be applauded ...", "(grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).\n2010, Gerd Haverling, \u201cActionality, tense, and viewpoint\u201d, in New Perspectives on Historical Latin Syntax\u200e, page 363:The historical present is often treated as a principal tense, but there are exceptions and sometimes both constructions appear in the same passage.", "(obsolete, biology) Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary." ] }, { "mean": "Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.\nThe Royal Historical Society\nThe State Historical Society of Wisconsin", "submean": [ "Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.\n1913, Herbert J. Spinden, A Study of Maya Art: Its Subject Matter and Historical Development\u200e, page 27:The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.\n2003 June, Denise E. DeLorme et al., \u201cJournalists' Hostility towards Public Relations\u201d, in Public Relations Review, volume 23, number 2:...No studies have investigated the problem\u2019s historic roots. Thus, this paper explores the perspective of \u201cearly insiders\u201d through an historical analysis of autobiographies, biographies, and magazine articles written by and about early US newspaper reporters and editors.\n2011, Christian Lee Novetzke, \u201cThe theographic and the historiographic in an Indian sacred life story\u201d, in Time, History, and the Religious Imagery in South Asia\u200e, page 119: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.", "(uncommon) Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.\n1847 January \u2013 1848 July, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair\u00a0, London: Bradbury and Evans\u00a0, published 1848, \u2192OCLC:A certain ball which a noble Duchess gave at Brussels on the 15th of June in the above-named year is historical. All Brussels had been in a state of excitement about it, and I have heard from ladies who were in that town at the period, that the talk and interest of persons of their own sex regarding the ball was much greater even than in respect of the enemy in their front.\n2010 July 12, Erich Follath et al., \u201cInterview with Mohamed ElBaradei\u201d, in Der Spiegel\u200e:EB: We live in a special time of awakening. This is a historical moment for EgyptDS: In which many see you as a kind of messiah.EB: I neither can nor want to be a savior." ] }, { "mean": "Forming compound adjectives with the meaning \"historical/~\" or \"historically\":\nhistorical-political" } ] }, { "name": "Noun", "meanlist": [ { "mean": "A historical romance.\n1999, Anne K. Kaler, Rosemary E. 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