historical vs historic
Definitions
adjective
- belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
- having once lived or existed or taken place in the real world as distinct from being legendary
- of or relating to the study of history
- used of the study of a phenomenon (especially language) as it changes through time
Examples
The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
Such a usage is ethically unacceptable, politically manipulative and decidedly unhistorical.
Total Capital Expenditures for 2009 are less than historical and current estimates for Maintenance and Obligatory Capital Expenditures which we define as the estimated amount of investment in capital projects and obligatory spending on existing facilities and operations needed to hold production approximately constant for the period.
Definitions
adjective
- belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past
- important in history
Examples
The same signary was also used in the early historical period to write Greek; by the end of the third century B.C., Greek alphabetic writing had almost completely supplanted the native script.
Those morning glories are grown every year along the south face of the historic, well-preserved post-and-beam barn that is the center of Heritage Farm; the 890-acre spread a few miles north of Decorah that Seed Savers Exchange now calls home.
It should also be noted that there are no contact-period materials from the Johnson site and that the only historic materials recovered date to the nineteenth century and did not occur in the provenances associated with the figurines.
