historical
Part of speech: adj
noun
Morphological type: derivation
Topics: art
arts
biology
grammar
human-sciences
linguistics
literature
media
natural-sciences
publishing
sciences
Etymology: From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to). By surface analysis, history + -ical.
Base: historicus
Affixes: -al
Inflected forms:
form: more historical
pos: adj
tags: comparative
form: most historical
pos: adj
tags: superlative
form: historicall
pos: adj
tags: alternative
form: historicals
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: historicall
pos: noun
tags: alternative
Senses:
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
pos: adj
examples: 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.
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
pos: adj
examples: There is no acknowledgment—because there is no understanding—that 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.
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.
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
pos: adj
examples: Sith thou gaue to vs a floure most riall Redolent in cronicles with historicall syght.
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
pos: adj
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: 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 them; but many of them are only historical and titular, and desire only to show themselves, and to be applauded ...
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
pos: adj
examples: The historical present is often treated as a principal tense, but there are exceptions and sometimes both constructions appear in the same passage.
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
pos: adj
tags: obsolete
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
pos: adj
examples: The Royal Historical Society
The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
pos: adj
examples: The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.
...No studies have investigated the problem’s historic roots. Thus, this paper explores the perspective of “early insiders” through an historical analysis of autobiographies, biographies, and magazine articles written by and about early US newspaper reporters and editors.
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.
gloss: Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
pos: adj
tags: uncommon
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically"
pos: adj
examples: historical-political
gloss: A historical romance.
pos: noun
examples: However, as regular romance readers know, the romance novels that appear on the best-seller lists are not Harlequins at all, but rather historicals and contemporaries, which vary widely from the Harlequin pattern in style, plot, and character.
Synonyms: historial
bygone
former
old
ancient
Antonyms: ahistorical
anachronistic
modern
contemporary
present
present-day
future
projected
expected
Derived words: ahistorical
allohistorical
anhistorical
antihistorical
art-historical
biohistorical
counterhistorical
cryptohistorical
culture-historical
culturohistorical
dictionary on historical principles
ecohistorical
ethnohistorical
geohistorical
grammatico-historical
historical Christian
historical-comparative
historical cost
historical-critical
historical criticism
historical-cultural
historical determinism
historical dictionary
historical-economic
historical faith
historical fiction
historical-geographical
historical geology
historical grammar
historical-grammatical
historical interpreter
historicalist
historicalization
historicalize
historical-lexicographical
historical linguist
historical linguistics
historically
historical materialism
historical materialist
historical method
historical-minded
historical-mindedness
historicalness
historical novel
historical-onomatological
historical-political
historical present
historical present tense
historical relativism
historical research
historical shirt
historical society
historical-sociological
historical sociology
historical subject
historical-typological
hysterical historical
macrohistorical
media-historical
megahistorical
metahistorical
microhistorical
mystorical
mythistorical
mythohistorical
nonhistorical
paleohistorical
parahistorical
politicohistorical
polyhistorical
posthistorical
prehistorical
protohistorical
pseudohistorical
psychohistorical
quasihistorical
religiohistorical
scientifico-historical
semihistorical
socio-historical
sociohistorical
superhistorical
transhistorical
unhistorical
world-historical
Translations:
lang: Afrikaans
word: histories
lang: Albanian
word: historik
lang: Southern Altai
word: тӱӱкилик
roman: tüükilik
lang: Arabic
word: تَارِيخِي
roman: tārīḵī
lang: Armenian
word: պատմական
roman: patmakan
lang: Asturian
word: históricu
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tarixi
lang: Azerbaijani
word: tarix
lang: Bashkir
word: тарихи
roman: tarixi
lang: Basque
word: historiko
lang: Belarusian
word: гістары́чны
roman: histarýčny
lang: Bengali
word: ঐতিহাসিক
roman: ōitihaśik
lang: Bulgarian
word: истори́чески
roman: istoríčeski
lang: Catalan
word: històric
lang: Cebuano
word: makasaysayon
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 歷史的 /历史的
roman: lìshǐ de
lang: Crimean Tatar
word: tarihiy
lang: Czech
word: historický
lang: Danish
word: historisk
lang: Dutch
word: geschiedkundig
lang: Dutch
word: historisch
lang: Esperanto
word: historia
lang: Estonian
word: ajalooline
lang: Faroese
word: søguligur
lang: Finnish
word: historiallinen
lang: French
word: historique
lang: Galician
word: histórico
lang: Georgian
word: ისტორიული
roman: isṭoriuli
lang: German
word: geschichtlich
lang: German
word: historisch
lang: Greek
word: ιστορικός
roman: istorikós
lang: Ancient Greek
word: ἱστορικός
roman: historikós
lang: Gujarati
word: ઐતિહાસિક
roman: aitihāsik
lang: Hebrew
word: הִיסְטוֹרִי
roman: históri
lang: Hiligaynon
word: maragtasnon
lang: Hindi
word: ऐतिहासिक
roman: aitihāsik
lang: Hungarian
word: történelmi
lang: Icelandic
word: sögulegur
lang: Icelandic
word: sagnfræðilegur
lang: Indonesian
word: historis
lang: Indonesian
word: bersejarah
lang: Interlingua
word: historic
lang: Irish
word: stairiúil
lang: Italian
word: storico
lang: Japanese
word: 歴史的な
roman: rekishiteki na
lang: Kazakh
word: тарихи
roman: tarixi
lang: Korean
word: 역사적인
roman: yeoksajeog-in
lang: Korean
word: 력사적인
roman: ryeoksajeog-in
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: tarîxî
lang: Northern Kurdish
word: dîrokî
lang: Kyrgyz
word: тарыхый
roman: tarıhıy
lang: Latin
word: historicus
lang: Latvian
word: vēsturisks
lang: Lithuanian
word: istorinis
lang: Lithuanian
word: istoriškas
lang: Macedonian
word: историски
roman: istoriski
lang: Malay
word: bersejarah
lang: Maltese
word: storiku
lang: Māori
word: aronehe
lang: Mongolian
word: түүхэн
roman: tüüxen
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: historisk
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: historisk
lang: Occitan
word: istoric
lang: Old English
word: ġewyrdelīc
lang: Pashto
word: تاريخي
roman: tārixí
lang: Persian
word: تاریخی
roman: târixi
lang: Polish
word: historyczny
lang: Portuguese
word: histórico
lang: Romanian
word: istoric
lang: Romanian
word: istorică
lang: Romanian
word: istorici
lang: Russian
word: истори́ческий
roman: istoríčeskij
lang: Scottish Gaelic
word: eachdraidheil
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: по̏вије̄снӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: хисто̀рӣјскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: исто̀рӣјскӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: по̏ве̄снӣ
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pȍvijēsnī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: històrījskī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: istòrījskī
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: pȍvēsnī
lang: Slovak
word: historický
lang: Slovene
word: zgodovȋnski
lang: Slovene
word: histọ́ričən
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: historiski
lang: Spanish
word: histórico
lang: Swedish
word: historisk
lang: Tagalog
word: makasaysayan
lang: Tagalog
word: masaysayin
lang: Tagalog
word: pangkasaysayan
lang: Tajik
word: таърихӣ
roman: ta'rixi
lang: Telugu
word: చారిత్రక
roman: cāritraka
lang: Thai
word: ประวัติศาสตร์
roman: bprà-wàt-dtì-sàat
lang: Turkish
word: tarihî
lang: Turkish
word: tarihsel
lang: Turkmen
word: taryhy
lang: Ukrainian
word: істори́чний
roman: istorýčnyj
lang: Urdu
word: تاریخی
roman: tārīxī
lang: Uyghur
word: تارىخى
roman: tarixi
lang: Uzbek
word: tarixiy
lang: Vietnamese
word: thuộc về sử học
lang: Vietnamese
word: lịch sử
lang: Volapük
word: jenavik
lang: Welsh
word: hanesyddol
lang: Yiddish
word: היסטאָריש
roman: historish