historical : Idioms & Phrases
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historical document
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noun writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
historical document; historical paper.
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historical linguistics
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noun the study of linguistic change
diachrony; diachronic linguistics.
- the synchrony and diachrony of language
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Historical painting
- that branch of painting which represents the events of history.
Webster 1913
historical paper
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noun writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
historical document; historical paper.
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historical present
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noun the use of the present tense to describe past actions or states
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historical record
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noun writing having historical value (as opposed to fiction or myth etc.)
historical document; historical paper.
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historical school
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noun a school of 19th century German economists and legal philosophers who tried to explain modern economic systems in evolutionary or historical terms
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Historical sense
- that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written.
Webster 1913
The historic sense
- the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.
