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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Historic \His*tor"ic\, Historical \His*tor"ic*al\, a. [L.
historicus Gr ?: cf F. historique See {History}.]
Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events;
as an historical poem; the historic page. --
{His*tor"ic*al*ness}, n. -- {His*to*ric"i*ty}, n.
There warriors frowning in historic brass. --Pope.
{Historical painting}, that branch of painting which
represents the events of history.
{Historical sense}, that meaning of a passage which is
deduced from the circumstances of time, place etc., under
which it was written.
{The historic sense}, the capacity to conceive and represent
the unity and significance of a past era or age.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
historicalness
n 1: the state of having in fact existed in the past
2: significance owing to its history
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