Unhistoric

a. (UN-¹ 7; cf. next.)

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1801. W. Fox, La Bagatella, 437.

	‘Remember me!’ and (might I dare indulge
	A thought so vain) altho’ unknown to Fame,
	These humble walks now wind their modest course,
	All unhistoric—unpoetic ground.

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1830. A. Cunningham, Lives Brit. Painters, I. 92. The conception of those works is their [Hogarth’s] chief merit; nor are they necessarily unhistoric because they differ in character from works called historical. Satire and humour come within the meaning of history.

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1862. ‘Shirley’ (J. Skelton), Nugæ Crit., iii. 177. Only a rash and unhistoric mind can affirm that [etc.].

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1874. Withrow, Catacombs of Rome (1877), 535. A new, unscriptural, and unhistoric method.

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