HISTORICALLY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does historically mean? 

• HISTORICALLY (adverb)
  The adverb HISTORICALLY has 2 senses:

1. throughout history

2. with respect to history

  Familiarity information: HISTORICALLY used as an adverb is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• HISTORICALLY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Throughout history

Context example:

historically they have never coexisted peacefully

Pertainym:

historical (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)

Sense 2

Meaning:

With respect to history

Context example:

this is historically interesting

Pertainym:

historic (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)

 Context examples 

The CMBP also seeks to enhance the effectiveness of programs in cancer treatment and cancer control in reaching the minority community and other historically underserved segments of the general population.

(Comprehensive Minority Biomedical Program, NCI Thesaurus)

Tropical species have historically encountered much less disturbance than those in temperate zones, so respond to it more quickly.

(Forest fragmentation hits wildlife hardest in the tropics, National Science Foundation)

An obsolete concept, historically used for childhood mental disorders thought to be a form of schizophrenia.

(Childhood Schizophrenia, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

“We also know that, historically, these plants were used in shamanic rituals and witchcraft, both in Mexico and Europe”, adds Dr. Paloma Cariñanos of the UGR.

(Scientists examine the ethnobotanical uses of stramonium, University of Granada)

Historically, these conditions were believed to be the result of lack of blood flow to the brain.

(Lack of Oxygen, Not Blood Flow, Delays Brain Maturation in Preterm Infants, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Historically, the clinical course of this type of Hodgkin lymphoma was aggressive.

(Lymphocyte Depleted Classical Hodgkin Lymphoma, NCI Thesaurus/WHO)

Historically, the term "aromatic" originally referred to the smell of selected compounds that later were found to contain benzene or fused benzene rings in the structure.

(Aromatic Compounds, NCI Thesaurus)

Ether also refers loosely to diethyl-ether, a colorless, volatile, highly inflammable liquid used in industry and biomedical research, and historically important as an anesthetic agent.

(Ether, NCI Thesaurus)

Dukono is 1 of 78 of historically active volcanoes in the Indonesian archipelago.

(Plume from Dukono Volcano, Indonesia, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)

Historically, alligators have been considered a freshwater species due to their lack of salt-secreting glands.

(Alligators, rulers of the swamps, link marine and freshwater ecosystems, NSF)