In a historic manner; with reference to history or the historical record. / According to history: formerly, in the past, traditionally. / To an unprecedented or extremely rare degree.

Very important; noteworthy: having importance or significance in history. / Old-fashioned, untouched by modernity.

Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions. / (literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.

A historical romance.

(obsolete) A history, a non-fiction account of the past. / (obsolete) A historian.

Historical quality or authenticity based on fact. / (philosophy) The characteristic of having appeared or developed in history, as opposed to being natural or universal.

plural of historic

plural of historical

(historiography) An influential 19th-century school of thought in historiography that rejected universalist and anachronistic explanations of historical developments and instead emphasized the idiosyncrasies and organic developments of each culture and time period, to be understood through critical interpretation of primary sources in the context of the unique conditions that produced them.

plural of historism