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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