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Thursday, 7 August 2014

Difference between "Historic" and "Historical"

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Historic is an adjective whose meaning is "Having importance in or influence on history"
Historical means “From the past or anything related to history.”

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Examples>>
>>This is a historical event. (one that happened in the past)


>>The jury cannot take historical convictions into consideration(Jury did not consider the convictions related to past)
 

>>This is a historic event.
(one that is important in history, e.g., the Moon landing)
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>>In a historic vote, the Church of England decided to allow women to become priests.
(Allowing the women is an important decision which has impact on history)
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