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Historical cost(finance)
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historical (iou)



historical adjective & noun. LME.
[formed as HISTORIC: see -ICAL.]
A. adjective.
Of, belonging to, or pertaining to history, esp. as opp. to prehistory or to fiction or legend; of the nature of or in accordance with history. LME.
E. Dowden This historical Oldcastle is better known as Lord Cobham. Sunday Express The guide provides..the historical background to the early English colonies.
Relating to or concerned with (events of) history. E16.
J. B. Mozley By the historical imagination I mean the habit of realizing past time.
b. (Of the study of a subject) based on history or an analysis of development in course of time; in connection with history, from the historian's point of view; belonging to the past, not to the present. L19.
historical grammar: see GRAMMAR noun.
O. Jespersen Descriptive linguistics can never be rendered superfluous by historical linguistics. American Speech The utility of full-text data bases for historical-lexicographical research.
Of a novel, a writer, etc.: dealing with events of history; depicting or describing events of history. L16.
Observer Philip Woodruff's Colonel of Dragoons..a very model of what historical fiction ought to be.
= HISTORIC adjective 3. M19.
M. Pattison It is the old historical lands of Europe that the lover of history longs to explore.
= HISTORIC adjective 4. rare. M19.
b. noun. A historical work etc.; esp. a historical novel. M17.
A. Blaisdell Donaldson was yawning over a paper-back historical.
historicalness noun M17.