historic : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: historic	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for historic
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
historic adj belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past; "historic victories"; "historical (or historic) times"; "a historical character" Synonym(s): historic, historical important in history; "the historic first voyage to outer space"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Historic \Histor"ic\, Historical \Histor"ical\, a. [L. historicus, Gr. [?]: cf. F. historique. See {History}.] Of or pertaining to history, or the record of past events; as, an historical poem; the historic* page. -- {Histor"icalness}, n. -- {Historic"ity}, n. There warriors frowning in historic brass. --Pope. {Historical painting}, that branch of painting which represents the events of history. {Historical sense}, that meaning of a passage which is deduced from the circumstances of time, place, etc., under which it was written. {The historic sense}, the capacity to conceive and represent the unity and significance of a past era or age.