<p><strong>Adjective</strong></p><ul><li>of, relating to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research.</li><li>based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: a historical reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg.</li><li>having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief: Scholars doubt that a historical Camelot ever existed.</li><li>narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past: He cited several historical examples of international conflict resolution.</li><li>relating to or involving analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of a phenomenon, as in language or economics: She taught a course in historical linguistics.</li></ul>