historical method
the process of establishing general facts and principles through attention to chronology and to the evolution or historical course of what is being studied.
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How to use historical method in a sentence
In this sense, therefore, we should have to proceed by a historical method.
The English Utilitarians, Volume II (of 3) | Leslie StephenAffairs in England, even more than elsewhere, require to be thus approached by the historical method.
The English Stage | Augustin FilonThe historical method will trace the derivative laws of social order and progress.
Analysis of Mr. Mill's System of Logic | William StebbingBut the popular excitement about the alleged duel continued, and we had to fall back on our old historical method.
The Ball and The Cross | G.K. ChestertonTheir very historical method, apart from anything else, makes them so.
Contemporary Socialism | John Rae
British Dictionary definitions for historical method
a means of learning about something by considering its origins and development
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