historical
/hɪˈstɔɹɪkəl/ adjective B1- 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.· an important historical personage
- About history; depicting persons or events from history.
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- Set in the past.
- Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.
- One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).
- Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history. · The Royal Historical Society· The State Historical Society of Wisconsin
- Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.
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But it was not upon Corsica, the very houses of which he could distinguish; or on Sardinia; or on the Island of Elba, with its historical associations; or upon the almost imperceptible line that to the experienced eye of a sailor alone revealed the coast of Genoa the proud, and Leghorn the commercial, that he gazed.
I must congratulate you on coming into the possession, though in rather a tragic manner of a relic which is of great intrinsic value, but of even greater importance as an historical curiosity.’
Well, I selected the cartilages of the heads of these fishes, and you can scarcely imagine the delight with which I welcomed the arrival of each Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, as affording me the means of increasing my stock of pens; for I will freely confess that my historical labors have been my greatest solace and relief.
## VIII HISTORICAL ASSOCIATIONS
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