Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To make or make appear historical.
- intransitive verb To use historical details or materials.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To record or narrate as history.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To treat from the perspective of
history orhistoricism
Etymologies
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Examples
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I suppose you could historicize or contextualize them – Ballard with the ICA milieu and Eno with the UK art schools.
Ballardian » The 032c Interview: Simon Reynolds on Ballard, part 2 2009
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Judeo-Christian, Greek, Renaissance and Enlightenment traditions historicize this link via idealized bodies, technological perfection, ordered space and a host of other tropes for reasoned man, who is good because he is beautiful and beautiful because he is good.
ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011
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Judeo-Christian, Greek, Renaissance and Enlightenment traditions historicize this link via idealized bodies, technological perfection, ordered space and a host of other tropes for reasoned man, who is good because he is beautiful and beautiful because he is good.
ArtScene: This Month's Top Exhibitions in the Western United States ArtScene 2011
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This is an irony, indeed, for a critic and a book most readily associated with the command to "always historicize!"
Introduction 2008
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Why do Roman sources Tacitus or the letters of Pliny not mention that this movement is seeking to historicize a mythical figure?
Mythicism and Inerrancy James F. McGrath 2009
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Why do Roman sources Tacitus or the letters of Pliny not mention that this movement is seeking to historicize a mythical figure?
Archive 2009-01-01 James F. McGrath 2009
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And it is also dangerous to historicize his life in a pragmatic way upon other human beings.
Following The Historical Jesus, Following The Real Jesus James F. McGrath 2009
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A good rule of thumb is to historicize everything, connect everything, keep asking how things link up and move from one to another.
A Classroom Dialogue 2007
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What I set out to do in those posts was historicize the doomsters.
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This is the first time I've seen a 19th-c. author try to historicize the use of "Romanist" vs.
Religion 2009
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