1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (ix. 4) i. f. 26/2 He sheweth in historywise, that his enemies were overthrowen.

1746 J. Dove Importance Rabbinical Learning 4 The New Testament is wrote History-wise, without one new Institution, Precept, or Idea in it.

1812 Halcyon Luminary Mar. 114 This style may be called the Science of Correspondences;..and consisted in a beautiful and impressive representation of spiritual things, by things natural, history-wise, as must be evident to every intelligent and attentive reader.

1908 F. E. Schelling Elizabethan Drama I. viii. 378 The Weakest Goeth to the Wall is a romantic story of Italian origin told ‘history-wise’.

1948 L. A. Scheele in Local Public Health Service (Hearings before U.S. House Interstate & Foreign Commerce Committee, 80th Congr., 2nd Sess.) 31 It is very difficult, historywise, in terms of getting funds for health programs unless recognition is taken of the fact that a problem is of a certain size and there is an opportunity to match the appropriations to that size.

1952 Jet 21 Feb. 61 History-wise, the new movie, The Magic Garden, is unique as the first African motion picture with an all-native cast to be shown in white theaters.

1991 Guardian (Nexis) 1 Apr. I suppose you're bound to pick something up history-wise, while you're basically having fun.

2005 Plenty Mar. 20/1 That doesn't have the romantic appeal of inventing the bulb, but it happens to be more significant, historywise.