historicize
verb
his·tor·i·cize hi-ˈstȯr-ə-ˌsīz 
-ˈstär-
historicized; historicizing
transitive verb
: to make historical
intransitive verb
: to use historical material
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web It is used to historicize the conflict between the family and their nemesis, the white Landry/Boudreaux families. 
Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022 Perhaps Fukuyama’s evolution is a cue to instead historicize liberalism as a regional ideology that has shaped a few large countries, over a few recent centuries. Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022 Keret said his father fought to humanize and historicize the Holocaust, to see it as more than a story of unmitigated oppression. Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019
Tanisha C. Ford, The Atlantic, 7 Sep. 2022 Perhaps Fukuyama’s evolution is a cue to instead historicize liberalism as a regional ideology that has shaped a few large countries, over a few recent centuries. Krithika Varagur, The New Yorker, 25 May 2022 Keret said his father fought to humanize and historicize the Holocaust, to see it as more than a story of unmitigated oppression. Gal Beckerman, New York Times, 30 Aug. 2019 Word History
First Known Use
1846, in the meaning defined at transitive sense