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historicize, v.|hɪˈstɒrɪsaɪz| [f. as prec. + -ize.] 1. trans. To make, or represent as, historic.
1846Grote Greece i. iv. (1862) I. 77 Here again he historicises various features of the old legend. 2. intr. To recount historical events. (nonce-use, after moralize.)
1887St. James's Gaz. 24 Dec. 7/2 The author..moralizes and historicizes, so to say. Hence hiˈstoricizing vbl. n. and ppl. a.
1846Grote Greece i. v. (1869) I. 96 Another statement, formed in more historicising times. 1888Rhŷs Hibbert Lect. 651 The historicizing of the myth. |