semihistorical

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semihistorical (not comparable)

Half or partly historical.
- 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

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “semihistorical”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)