The Collaborative International Dictionary
Historicize \His*tor"i*cize\, v. t. To record or narrate in the manner of a history; to chronicle. [R.]
Wiktionary
vb. To treat from the perspective of history or historicism
Usage examples of "historicize".
It was just this primary erosion that the nineteenth century sought in its concern to historicize everything, to write a general history of everything, to go back ceaselessly through time, and to place the most stable of things in the liberating stream of time.
The British had to historicize the Indian past in order to have access to it and put it to work.
Here we must historicize the process from the standpoint of the dominant powers.
Thomson hits breaks the plane of the outfield wall giving the Giants victory, however, we leave the space of fictionalized history and enter historicized fiction.
It consolidated a particular and hegemonic image of modern sovereignty, the image of the victory of the bourgeoisie, which it then both historicized and universalized.
What, exactly, is this difficulty in historicizing that is typical of women, forced to inhabit the margins of history?
Getting into it is like sinking into tons of funky cement in order to arrive at some historical point where you can see who you are and who they are and how you've been historicized by the journey.