Historic
[hɪ'stɒrɪk] or [hɪ'stɔrɪk]
Definition
(adj.) important in history; 'the historic first voyage to outer space' .
(adj.) belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; 'historic victories'; 'historical (or historic) times'; 'a historical character' .
Edited by Enrico--From WordNet
Definition
(a.) Alt. of Historical
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Examples
- This part of the country is rich in historic reminiscences, and poor as Sahara in every thing else. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- In historic practice the error has cut two ways. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- Three typical historic philosophies of education were considered from this point of view. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- As a sample story of adventure, Mr. McGowan's narrative is a marvel fit to be classed with the historic journeyings of the greatest travellers. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- For the rest we touched upon all the historic names from Thales to Nietzsche. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- Without doubt, all these things characterize historic philosophies more or less. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- No insight into the evident fact that power upsets all mechanical foresight and gravitates toward the natural leaders seems to have illuminated those historic deliberations. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It is but a question of time, of skilful propagandism, and of opinion-making men seizing historic opportunities. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It seems hardly real when I find myself leaning for a moment on a ruined wall and looking listlessly down into the historic pool of Bethesda. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Jewels--historic pearls: the Sobieski emeralds--sables,--but she cares nothing for all these! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- This chapter would not be complete if it failed to include some reference to a few of the earlier isolated plants of a historic character. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The idea of attributing great successes to genius has always been repudiated by Edison, as evidenced by his historic remark that Genius is 1 per cent. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- With the close of Mr. McGowan's and Mr. Ricalton's expeditions, there ended the historic world-hunt for natural fibres. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- Such a vocational education inevitably discounts the scientific and historic human connections of the materials and processes dealt with. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- This state of affairs explains many things in our historic educational traditions. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- That historic document broke a legal bond but not a social one. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- It makes me feel as old as these dreary hills to look down upon these moss-hung ruins, this historic desolation. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Neither the historic nor prehistoric records find man without musical instruments of some sort. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
- The Historic Background of Humanistic Study. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- The situation has, of course, its historic explanation. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- On Thursday, May 13, 1880, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, this historic locomotive made its first trip, packed with as many of the boys as could possibly find a place to hang on. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- The lives of great men, of heroes and leaders, make concrete and vital historic episodes otherwise abstract and incomprehensible. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
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