English Dictionary

historical

/hɪˈstɒɹɪkəl/

adj

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.

The historical artifacts in the museum provide a glimpse into the past.

意味（1）

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

意味（2）

(literature, art) About history; depicting persons or events from history.

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.

意味（3）

(literature, art) Set in the past.

意味（4）

(uncommon) Former, erstwhile; (religious, obsolete) lapsed, nominal.

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 ...

意味（5）

(grammar) One of various tenses or moods used to tell about past events, historic (tense).

The historical present is often treated as a principal tense, but there are exceptions and sometimes both constructions appear in the same passage.

意味（6）

(obsolete, biology) Synonym of hereditary or evolutionary.

意味（7）

Done in the manner of a historian: written as a development over time or in accordance with the historical method.

The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.

意味（8）

(uncommon) Synonym of historic: important or likely to be important to history and historians.

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: 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.

意味（9）

Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically":

historical-political