Definition of Historicize

1. v. t. To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.

Definition of Historicize

1. Verb. To treat from the perspective of history or historicism ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Historicize

1. [v -CIZED, -CIZING, -CIZES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Historicize

historical period
historical present
historical record
historical research
historical school
historicalization
historicalizations
historically
historicalness
historicism
historicisms
historicist
historicists
historicities
historicity
historicize (current term)
historicized
historicizes
historicizing
historick
historie
historied
histories
historiette
historiettes
historified
historifies
historify
historifying
historiographer

Literary usage of Historicize

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Greece: II. Grecian History to the Reign of Peisistratus at Athens by George Grote (1899)
"Instructed men were commonly disposed to historicize only the heroic legends, and to allegorize more or less of the divine legends: the attempt of ..."

2. History of Greece by George Grote (1859)
"Instructed men were commonly disposed to historicize only the heroic legends, and to allegorize more or less of the divine legends: the attempt of ..."

3. The Gentleman's Magazine (1831)
"Nevertheless, they did not historicize it, as they would have done, had it been an affair of dates and details. ..."

4. The Culture of Violence by Kumar Rupesinghe (1994)
"The direction of my usage is to historicize the notion, to indicate how radically original orientational frames to being can come into existence. ..."

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