historicize en · VERB
Etymology
Etymology tree English historic Proto-Indo-European *-id- Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-idyéti Proto-Hellenic *-íd͏̌d͏̌ō Ancient Greek -ῐ́ζω (-ĭ́zō)bor. Late Latin -izōder. Middle French -iserbor. Middle English -isen English -ize English historicize From historic + -ize.
Meanings
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(ambitransitive) To treat from the perspective of history or historicism
The breaking point came in 1900 with the hostile reaction to his “Philosophy,” a public commission for the University of Vienna in which Klimt’s historicizing realism began to turn toward a darker, more distorted Symbolist treatment of figures and space.
2007 October 19, Roberta Smith, “Sensualist With a Cause in Old Vienna”, in New York Times:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| historicise | alternative | lexicographic | |
| historicizes | Number=Sing, Person=3, Tense=Pres | lexicographic | |
| historicized | Tense=Past, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic | |
| historicized | Tense=Past | lexicographic | |
| historicizing | Tense=Pres, VerbForm=Part | lexicographic |
Deriveds
Translations (3)
es historizar (Translations) · it storicizzare (Translations) · sh historizirati (Translations)