[hi-stawr-i-kuh
l, -stor-] 
| 1. | of, pertaining to, treating, or characteristic of history or past events: historical records; historical research. |
| 2. | based on or reconstructed from an event, custom, style, etc., in the past: a historical reenactment of the battle of Gettysburg. |
| 3. | having once existed or lived in the real world, as opposed to being part of legend or fiction or as distinguished from religious belief: to doubt that a historical Camelot ever existed; a theologian's study of the historical Jesus. |
| 4. | narrated or mentioned in history; belonging to the past. |
| 5. | noting or pertaining to analysis based on a comparison among several periods of development of a phenomenon, as in language or economics. |
| 6. | historic (def. 1). |
| un·his·tor·i·cal (ŭn'hĭ-stôr'ĭ-kəl, -stŏr'-) adj. Taking little or no account of history. |