1632 J. Hayward in tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena Transl. to Rdr. sig. A4 I mean an historicall way of Poetizing, or Poeticall manner of historizing, or displaying of the fained..adventures and actions of persons reall.

1647 S. Torshell Designe disposing Bible into Harmony 18 An Harmonious historizing of the Psalms.

1817 J. H. Fielding Beauchamp III. ii. 27 All the several ways of historizing resolve themselves into the two which we have specifically pointed out.

1862 Jrnl. Sacred Lit. & Biblical Rec. Jan. 381 They indulge in the most arbitrary admissions at variance with the literal meaning and the spirit of the narrative, by which means the explanation becomes an historizing of it.

1951 Rev. Metaphysics 4 484 The historizing of ideas and the philosophizing of experience.

1992 M. Ermarth in L. Krieger Ideas & Events p. xix We are presently in the midst of vehement debates about the historizing of all sorts of crucial episodes and experiences.

1652 J. Gaule Πυς-μαντια 103 In use among the historizing or exemplanizing Astrologers.

1827 Correspondent 21 July 406/1 We will divide them into the Historic, the Historising, the Allegoric and the Mythic explanations.

1892 W. Nicholson Myth & Relig. 153 The myth..underwent a historising process.

1914 Open Court Jan. 40 It was merely a manifestation of the historizing dramatizing tendency..everywhere present and active in countless interpolations and addenda.

2001 J. Bruhn & J. Lundquist Novelness of Bakhtin 21 Bakhtin in his contextualizing and historizing approach to language, genre, and literature is in stark opposition to the early formalistic way of autonomizing the text.