"historicize" meaning in English

See historicize in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Verb

Forms: historicizes [present, singular, third-person], historicizing [participle, present], historicized [participle, past], historicized [past]
Etymology: historic + -ize Etymology templates: {{suffix|en|historic|ize}} historic + -ize Head templates: {{en-verb}} historicize (third-person singular simple present historicizes, present participle historicizing, simple past and past participle historicized)
  1. (transitive, intransitive) To treat from the perspective of history or historicism Tags: intransitive, transitive Synonyms: historicise Translations (Translations): storicizzare (Italian), historizirati (Serbo-Croatian), historizar (Spanish)
    Sense id: en-historicize-en-verb-A4VHb2dY Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English terms suffixed with -ize

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