- of, relating to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records;historical research.
- based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: a historical reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg.
- having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief: Scholars doubt that a historical Camelot ever existed. Her thesis was an overview of how theologians have studied the historical Jesus.
- narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past: He cited several historical examples of international conflict resolution.
- relating to or involving analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of a phenomenon, as in language or economics: She taught a course in historical linguistics.
- historic (def. 1).
- belonging to or typical of the study of history
- concerned with or treating of events of the past
- based on or constituting factual material as distinct from legend or supposition
- based on or inspired by history
- occurring or prominent in history
- a less common word for historic (def. 1)
