meta-historicadj.n.
/ˌmɛtəhɪˈstɒrɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌmɛdəˌhɪsˈtɔrɪk/ Lying beyond the scope of historical narrative or inquiry; = meta-historical adj. Also as n.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > transcending history
meta-historical1905
meta-historic1929
1929 G. A. Deissmann New Testament in Light of Mod. Res. vi. 172 The holy is pre-historic and metahistoric.
1965 Renaissance News 18 225 The recognition of need for more justice and liberty which animates it [sc. utopian thought] carries it irresistibly beyond the real..toward the sur-real, the meta-historic, and the meta-empiric.
1996 S. J. Dick Biol. Universe Introd. 5 Along with the basic history of the debate, then, there is clearly a metahistoric issue of the cognitive status of the debate.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2001; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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