Definitions for historical

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historical his·tor·i·cal

Spelling: [hi-stawr-i-kuh l, -stor-]

IPA: /hɪˈstɔr ɪ kəl, -ˈstɒr-/

Historical is a 10 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 842 anagrams from letters in historical (achiilorst).

Definitions for historical

adjective

1. of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events:
2. based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past:
3. having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief:
4. narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past.
5. noting or pertaining to analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of a phenomenon, as in language or economics.
6. historic (def 1).

Origin of historical

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin historic(us) historic + -al¹

Examples for historical

It is a historical fact that Casanova visited Voltaire at Ferney.

We introduce it as historical information, from a most unerring source.

The book, this last declared, was the "beau-ideal of historical romance."

Hitchcock had the historical good fortune to have worked from silent films through television.

To do this we must rely upon the methods which we use in any historical investigation.

historical justifications for most modern celebrations can be found in the ancient world.

The narrative is a remarkable piece of historical research that spans just over 800 pages.

Sometimes a literary or historical picture creeps into the text.

If there was anyone who thought otherwise, he left no historical record.

The central thrust of the sequence derives from historical fact.