semihistorical
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From semi- + historical.
Adjective
[edit]semihistorical (not comparable)
- Half or partly historical (and partly fictitious).
- c. 1855, George Cornewall Lewis, An Inquiry Into the Credibility of the Early Roman History:
- The application of the rules of evidence to this semi-historical and crepuscular period - a period of which some knowledge has been preserved
References
[edit]- “semihistorical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.