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historic, a. (n.)|hɪˈstɒrɪk|
[ad. L. historic-us adj. (and n. ‘historian’), a. Gr. ἱστορικ-ός, f. ἱστορία history. Cf. F. historique (1480 in Hatz.-Darm.), in OF. also ‘historian’.]
A. adj.
1. Of or belonging to history; of the nature of history; historical; esp. of the nature of history as opposed to fiction or legend.
1669Gale Crt. Gentiles i. ii. viii. 111 Evident from sacred Historic Observation. 1700Prior Carmen Seculare 15 With equal Justice and Historic Care, Their Laws, their Toils, their Arms with his compare. 1847Tennyson Princ. Prol. 30 A hoard of tales that dealt with knights, Half⁓legend, half-historic. 1860Tyndall Glac. Pref., To make myself better acquainted..with the historic aspect of the question. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. i. 9 The sort of difficulty against which simple historic truth has to struggle. 1873H. Rogers Orig. Bible i. (1875) 36 The miracles imputed to the historic Christ. 1907I. Zangwill Ghetto Comedies 391 ‘The unconditional historic necessity will carry us on of itself towards a better social state.’ ‘There you go with your Marx and your Hegel!’ 1921G. B. Shaw in Nation 19 Feb. 705/1 Mr. Hyndman falls back..on Historic Determinism, and declares that the Bolshevists must fail because the economic conditions are not ripe. 1940‘G. Orwell’ Inside Whale 22 There is no perception here of what is now called historic necessity.
2. esp. Forming an important part or item of history; noted or celebrated in history; having an interest or importance due to connexion with historical events. (The prevailing current sense.)
a1794Gibbon Autobiog. & Corr. (1869) 22 My first introduction to the historic scenes, which have since engaged so many years of my life. 1851D. Wilson Preh. Ann. (1863) II. iv. ii. 249 That historic ground and the moss-grown sculptures with which it is paved. 1876Freeman Norm. Conq. (ed. 3) I. v. 321 A Norman castle and a Norman minster rose and fell on that historic spot.
3. Conveying or dealing with history; recording past events; = historical (which is the usual prose equivalent).
1675Ogilby Brit. 28 That Eminent Piece of Historick Poetry, Poly-olbion. 1725Pope Odyss. i. 306 Then grateful Greece with streaming eyes wou'd raise Historic Marbles, to record his praise. 1762–71H. Walpole Vertue's Anecd. Paint. (1786) III. 12 John Freeman, An historic painter, was a rival of Fuller. 1809W. Irving Knickerb. iv. i. (1849) 199 The true subjects for the historic pen. 1849Lingard Hist. Eng. Prelim. Notice (1855) 9 The stately and dignified march of the historic muse. 1871Freeman Hist. Ess. Ser. i. xi. 314 The possession of real historic power.
4. Applied, in Latin and Greek Grammar, to those tenses of the verb which are used in narration of past events (opposed to primary or principal); also, in Latin, to the infinitive mood when used instead of the indicative; and, generally, to the present tense, when used instead of the past in vivid narration.
The term historic tenses has been variously used; they answer partly to the secondary tenses of some grammarians.
1845Jelf Kühner's Greek Gr. (1851) II. 52 The relative tenses are divided into Principal (Present, Perfect, and Future) and Historic Tenses (Imperfect, Pluperfect, and Future exactum). 1871Public Sch. Lat. Primer §38 Tenses are Primary or Historic. The Present and Futures are Primary Tenses; the Imperfect and Pluperfect are Historic. The Perfect is Primary when Present-Past (I have loved), but Historic when Simple Past (I loved). Ibid. §117 note, The Inifinitive used predicatively for a Finite Verb, and called the Historic Infinitive. 1879Roby Lat. Gram. §1457 The Present tense expresses..An action in past time, but rhetorically assumed to be present. This is frequent in vivid narrations. (Historic present.)
B. n. rare.
†1. A historian. Obs.
1611H. Broughton Require Agreem. 25 Eusebius, being the common historique for the Church, telleth the common opinion for his time.
2. ellipt. A historic work, picture, subject, etc.
1830H. Angelo Remin. I. 203 He had tried all branches and attempted all styles; historics, landscape, familiar subjects. |