1. Of or relating to the study of history
   "historical scholars"; "a historical perspective" 
2. Having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary
   "the historical Jesus"; "doubt that a historical Camelot every existed"; "actual historical events" 
3. Belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
   "historical times"; "a historical character"
   - historic 
4. Used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
   - diachronic

See also: existent, historically, historicalness, history, past, real

Antonym: ahistorical

Encyclopedia: Historical

• First Epistle of Paul the Apostle to Timothy
• First Epistle of Peter
• First Epistle to the Corinthians
• First Epistle to the Thessalonians
• First Epistle to Timothy
• first estate
• first floor
• first fruits
• first gear
• first half
• first harmonic
• first in first out
• first lady
• first language
• First Lateran Council
• first law of motion
• first law of thermodynamics
• first lieutenant
• first light
• First Lord of the Treasury
• First Marquess Cornwallis
• first mate
• first moment
• first mortgage
• first name