historical

Forms

1.Of, concerning, or in accordance with recorded history, (particularly) as opposed to legends, myths, and fictions.
- The historical works of Lord Macaulay and Edward Gibbon are in and of themselves historic.
- July 4, 1776, is a historic date. A great deal of historical research has been done on the events leading up to that day.
- 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.
2.Of, concerning, or in accordance with the past generally.
- The historical present is often treated as a principal tense, but there are exceptions and sometimes both constructions appear in the same passage.
3.Of, concerning, or in accordance with the scholarly discipline of history.
- The historical development of skill in foreshortening will be demonstrated in another section. Only the more perfect phases will be treated here.
- 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.
4.Forming compound adjectives with the meaning "historical/~" or "historically"

Common· #1677

From Latin historicus (“historical”) + -al (forming adjectives denoting of or relating to).

By surface analysis, history + -ical.