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1533 T. More 2nd Pt. Confut. Tyndals Answere iv. p. xxxi He sayth in another chapyter after, felyngly and not onely hystorycally.

?1550 J. Bale Apol. agaynste Papyst f. xxi Now wyll I shewe hystorycallye the forme and fashyon of that popysh vowinge.

1591 J. Harington tr. L. Ariosto Orlando Furioso ii. 15 (note) Rather in fabulous and in Allegoricall sence, then plainely and historically.

1660 H. More Explan. Grand Myst. Godliness vii. x. 321 The Life and Death of Christ was writ in a serious manner by some or other; not Romantically but Historically.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. vi. 50 Let him..every night, at his going to bed, recollect historically what he hath done amiss to be sorry.

1723 H. Wanley Diary 22 Nov. (1966) II. 264 He ha's lately seen a large Piece of Wood carved Historically long since.

1790 E. Burke Refl. Revol. in France 187 The fact is so historically; and it agrees well with the speculation. View more context for this quotation

1837 R. W. Emerson Jrnl. 24 Nov. (1910) IV. 371 It seems to me that the circumstances of man are historically somewhat better here and now than ever.

1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 6 When we use the word Homer, we do not mean a person historically known to us, like Pope or Milton.

1937 A. Huxley Ends & Means vii. 67 No less ‘historically’ necessary and right are the brutalities of men in brown shirts.

1958 Spectator 27 June 849/1 Our undated and long-dated Government stocks are selling at historically low levels.

1991 Premiere Aug. 74/3 The movie can't be a historically accurate picture of the time.

1753 B. Holloway Let. & Spirit 431 Historically, Pharaoh put his Ring on Joseph's Hand, and a gold Chain about his Neck.

1831 Amer. Q. Rev. Dec. 308 Historically, the idea of body is simultaneous with and as it were suggests the idea of space.

1861 C. H. Pearson Early & Middle Ages Eng. 414 Historically, the court of exchequer..was developed out of the curia, or great court of the king's tenants-in-chief.

1929 Times Lit. Suppl. 19 Sept. 711/1 Historically, industrial concentration had gone on before the period of rationalization.

1942 Univ. Pennsylvania Law Rev. 90 430 The action on the case for spoken words was, historically, an outgrowth of the more ancient trespass action with its ad-damnum conclusion.

1981 K. Mamula in L. Evans Overtime (1990) 148 Historically, mass production depended on a constant supply of disposable people-resources to be exploited then discarded in sanitariums, detox units, nursing homes.

2001 N.Y. Times Mag. 11 Feb. 89 Historically, cheeses were blued in cold, drafty caves where mold that occurred naturally settled into the curds.

1869 H. Blackburn Normandy Picturesque iv. 78 The antiquary and historically minded traveller will naturally..pay a visit to the town of Dives.

1959 Brno Stud. in Eng. 1 30 How rewarding the study of the written norm may be even for the historically-minded specialist.

2009 Victorian Nov. 9/1 Part of the appeal of terracotta, for such a historically-minded age, was that it was not really a new material, but an old one waiting to be discovered.