Usually means: Placing events in historical context.
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  1. historicize: Merriam-Webster
  2. historicize: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. historicize: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. historicize: Collins English Dictionary
  5. historicize: Wordnik
  6. historicize: Wiktionary
  7. historicize: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. historicize: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. Historicize, historicize: Dictionary.com
  10. Historicize: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. historicize: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. Historicize: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  13. historicize: FreeDictionary.org
  14. historicize: TheFreeDictionary.com

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▸ verb:  (ambitransitive) To treat from the perspective of history or historicism

Similar:
historicise, historize, transhistoricize, historify, hypostatize, mythicize, theologize, temporalize, museumize, temporalise, more...

Opposite:
dehistoricize, decontextualize, dechronologize

Types:
view history, study history, research history, investigate history, more...

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Similar:
historicise, historize, transhistoricize, historify, hypostatize, mythicize, theologize, temporalize, museumize, temporalise, more...

Opposite:
dehistoricize, decontextualize, dechronologize

Types:
view history, study history, research history, investigate history, more...



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