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History n. 1. the branch of knowledge dealing with past events. 2. a continous systematic narrative or past events as relating to a particular people, country, period, person, etc., usually written in chronological order. 3. the aggregate of past events. 4. the record of past events, esp. in connection with the human race. 5. a past that is full of important, unusual, or interesting events. 6. acts, ideas, or events that will or can shape the course of the future. 7. a systematic account of any set of natural phenomena, without reference to time. 8. a drama representing historical events. [ME historie < L historia < KG historía learning or knowing by inquiry. history]
-Syn. 2. chronicle; annals. See narrative.
Historic adj. 1. well-known or important in history: a historic spot; historic occasions. 2. historical....
Historical adj. 1 . of, pertaining to, or characteristic of history or past events. 2. dealing with or treating of history or past events. 3. based on history or on documented material from the past: a historical pageant at Versailles. 4. of, pertaining to, or of the nature of history, as opposed to legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief. 5. narrated or mentioned in history: belonging to the past. 6. historic. def. 1]. 7. noting or pertaining to analysis based on a comparision among several periods of development of a phenomenon, as in language, economics, etc.
[Urdang, Laurence, ed. Random House Dictionary of The English Language. New York: Random House, 1968.]
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