historical method

noun

1. the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.

historical method

noun

1. a means of learning about something by considering its origins and development

Word History and Origins

Origin of historical method¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

In this sense, therefore, we should have to proceed by a historical method.

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Affairs in England, even more than elsewhere, require to be thus approached by the historical method.

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The Historical Method will trace the derivative laws of social order and progress.

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But the popular excitement about the alleged duel continued, and we had to fall back on our old historical method.

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Their very historical method, apart from anything else, makes them so.

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