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Definition of historical : Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic page.

Synonyms:

authentic, historic, constituting history, true, factual, important in history, real, diachronic, traditional, existent, archival, classical, commemorated

ancient, yesterday's, former, previous, old, old-time, yore, primeval, past, primordial, ago, anteceding, bygone

filed, cataloged, checked, audited, chronicled, itemized, documented, recounted, detailed, enumerated, recorded, inventoried, logged, journaled, registered, collected, tallied, noted, tabulated, scheduled, invoiced, tabled, listed, summed, counted, summarized, indexed, budgeted, totaled, stored

Usage examples:

• Of other state buildings in this neighborhood, a number are impressive by their cost, like the New York building; others, again, by historical suggestions of great charm. - "The Art of the Exposition", Eugen Neuhaus.
• But a truly historical importance belonged to this chamber in the long series of family portraits, filling almost entirely one side of the ancient library. - "The Man-Wolf and Other Tales", Emile Erckmann and Alexandre Chatrian.
• He was introduced to me by the missionaries as a man who, by his memory and profession, could add to my historical notes. - "Northern California, Oregon, and the Sandwich Islands", Charles Nordhoff.