historicize
verbEtymology From historic + -ize.
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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:
- Derived terms
- dehistoricize