historicistn.adj.

1875 W. Lincoln Lect. Bk. Revelation II. xii. 9 All the schools of its [sc. the Book of Revelation's] interpreters, whether Preterists, or Historicists, or Futurists, admit this fact.

1905 J. H. Timbrell Last Message of Jesus Christ 53 The historicist..claims that under the veil of this mystic address we have in outline the consecutive history of the entire Christian age.

1999 Deseret News (Salt Lake City) (Nexis) 11 Dec. e1 The ‘Historicists’ say the events have been happening throughout history and will continue to happen until Christ returns.

2011 C. E. Taber Earth's Final Dawn iv. 97 Historicists agree that the content of the Book is played out in history from the time of the first advent of Christ until His second advent.

1899 R. H. I. Palgrave Dict. Polit. Econ. III. 135/2 It may be worth while to point out to the more aggressive ‘historicists’ that the more the historian establishes the independence of his own study,..the more..he tends to establish the corresponding independence of the economic science which..is primarily concerned to understand the present.

1915 New Republic 23 Jan. 20/1 You cannot select a boy's career by studying his ancestors, nor plan the future of America by studying its history. This in essence is what the historicists—an awkward name for awkward people—are trying to do.

1957 K. R. Popper Poverty of Historicism ii. 41 Sociology, to the historicist, is theoretical history.

a1963 C. S. Lewis Discarded Image (1964) vii. 175 The best medieval historians, like the best historians in other periods, are seldom Historicists.

2002 New Yorker 9 Dec. 134/2 Teachout does not commit the common error of historicists, the throwing up of hands.

1905 Expositor 11 325 All the four Gospels offer to the customary historicist, quite apart from any theories as to their authorship and subsequent revisions, an almost insoluble problem.

1914 Monist 24 425 The story of the Passion is just as much a later addition here as it is (by admission of such a staunch historicist as Harnack) in the Gospels.

1915 New Republic 23 Jan. 20/2 History..can all too easily be erected by the historicist into a mystical patriotism, a foolish exaltation.

1948 Archit. Rev. 104 226 Meldahl was the most important Danish historicist.

1979 Jrnl. Soc. Archit. Historians 38 404/1 Post-Modernists are not, it appears, ‘Historicists’ because if historicists went all the way, they would meet ‘interior decorators and reactionaries coming back the other way’.

1982 N.Y. Times (Nexis) 13 June 20/1 The historicists of these years were seeking pleasing effect, not historical appropriateness; this was an architecture without ideology.

2010 A. Singer Self-deceiving Muse 173 With the photo-blur technique Richter escapes the feral debate between modern abstractionists and postmodern historicists by joining the issue of perception to the phenomenon of self-deceiving perspective.

1937 J. Orr tr. I. Iordan Introd. Romance Linguistics iv. 298 His..field of research, namely, Indo-European philology, made him [sc. Meillet]..a historicist and comparatist.

1954 Word 10 ii. 123 A ‘historicist’ will be just as blind to the bundles of intimate connections which the synchronist points out between the different units of a language system.

2001 M.-J. Tarpent in L. J. Brinton Hist. Linguistics 1999 310 Linguists who are not already historicists are rarely aware of what is going on in our field.

1905 Union Seminary Mag. 16 130 Let us look at the two competing theories of the origin of the Pentateuch. One of them may be called historicist, because it accepts the historicity of the narratives.

1916 Internat. Jrnl. Ethics 26 534 These writers defy the historicist and positivist condemnation of all rational or non-positive law.

1959 G. D. Mitchell Sociol. 5 The historicist tradition which we have seen in Comte.

1988 New Lit. Hist. 20 202 Croce and Derrida's shared historicist view of language as proteanly dynamic and creative.

1999 J. MacArthur Revelation 1-11 Intro. 10 Like the preterist approach, the historicist view ignores Revelation's own claims to be a prophecy.

2009 Victorian Nov. 9/2 What started as a largely historicist movement soon developed more progressive tendencies once the full potential of the material was realised.

1944 B. B. Carter tr. L. Sturzo Inner Laws Society p. xi We hold that there can be no true sociology which is not ‘historicistic’.

2003 Polit. Theory 31 496 Intimations of this more historicistic argument connecting value pluralism to liberalism can also be found in Berlin.