historial

From Middle English historial, from Middle French historial (French historial) and its etymon Latin historiālis.^[1] By surface analysis, history +‎ -al. Piecewise doublet of storial.

• IPA^(key): /hɪsˈtɔːɹiəl/
• Rhymes: -ɔːɹiəl

historial (comparative more historial, superlative most historial)

1. (now rare) Synonym of historical or historic.
   • 1899, Victor Nilsson, “Progress and Prosperity—Oscar II”, in Sweden, New York, N.Y.: Peter Fenelon Collier, →OCLC, page 434:

     The Swedes become excellent citizens of a republic for that very reason: reverence for, and loyalty to, the institutions and historial development of the country in which they dwell.

   • 1956 November 24, “Top Show Pluggers”, in The Billboard, 62nd year, New York, N.Y., →ISSN, →OCLC, page 12, column 2:

     Station KVOA-TV has ingeniously tied in many factors to provide itself with a giant color send-off. The factors are these: Tucson every day stages its “Old Tucson Days,” a big historial celebration.

historial (plural historials)

1. (archaic or historical) Synonym of history or record.
   • 1604, Pedro Mexia, translated by W[illiam] Traheron, “The Life of Constantine the Great, […]”, in The Historie of All the Romane Emperors, […], London: […] Matthew Lownes, →OCLC, page 317:

     And the Greeke Church doth celebrate his [Constantine’s] feaſt as a Saint, vpon the twentith day of Aprill. And ſo doe alſo defend his faich and holines both in life and death Antonivs Sabellicvs in his Æneades; Platina in the life of Pope Marcvs; Pomponivs Letvs in his abridgement of the Romane hiſtorie; and Baptista Ignativs in his epitome of the Emperours; and S. Antoninvs in his Hiſtorials: and generally all the moderne authors, beſides the ancient alreadie named.

   • 1903 November, Ye Fayerbanke Historial, volume I, number 1, Boston, Mass.: The Fairbank Literary Bureau, →OCLC
   • 1991, Ruth Morse, “The meaning of the past”, in Truth and Convention in the Middle Ages: Rhetoric, Representation, and Reality, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: Cambridge University Press, →ISBN, page 86:

     To put it sympathetically, historials were praised for their ability to reduce the flux of the past to an ordered, patterned account which had a satisfactory overall shape.

• “historial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• historiall

Borrowed from Middle French historial and its etymon Latin historiālis; equivalent to historie +‎ -al. Piecewise doublet of storial.

• IPA^(key): /isˌtɔriˈal/, /isˈtɔrial/, /ɛs-/

historial (plural and weak singular historiale)

1. Historical, genuine, factual.
2. Historic; historically significant.
   • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Physician's Tale, The Canterbury Tales, line 155-157:

     [...] So was his name, (for this is no fable,
     But knowen for historial thing notable,
     The sentence of it sooth is, out of doute), [...]

     [...] Such was his name, (for this is no fable,
     But known for a noteworthy historical fact,
     The substance of it is true, beyond doubt), [...]

3. (rare) Related to history or historical events.
4. (rare) Non-figurative; at face value.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Chaucer to this entry?)

• English: historial

• “historiā̆l, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007, retrieved 4 April 2019.

historial (plural historials)

1. (hapax legomenon) A history, a record.
   • c. 1487, Diodorus Siculus, translated by John Skelton, The Bibliotheca Historica of Diodorus Siculus, volume I (Text), London: […] [F]or the Early English Text Society by Oxford University Press, published 1956, →OCLC, page 281:

     But about the season that it goeth downe, it appereth all otherwise and sheweth hym-self of an other faction; for ij 20 owres to-gedre it semeth as it were a tree full of newe branches gloriously illumyned; and, as Agathargiles Gnidius reporteth in his historiall, it contynueth so light by the space of iij owres, and all the season is passyng dilectable vnto thenhabitauntes.

     [original: Circa occaſum ecõuerſo cõtingit. Nã uidetur aſpectu orbem no uis radiis illuminare horis duabus. Et ut agatharchides gnidius tradit tribus. Hoc uero tempus incolis ꝑiocondũ.]

• English: historial

• “historial, adj. and n.”, in OED Online ⁠, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

• IPA^(key): /istoˈɾjal/ [is.t̪oˈɾjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: his‧to‧rial

historial m (plural historiales)

1. record, history (such as a person's criminal, work, or clinical record)
   • 2024 December 15, Brian Fung, “Los CEO querían que la principal reguladora empresarial de Biden se fuera y están por cumplir su deseo”, in CNN en Español‎^[1]:

     Aquí es donde el historial de Ferguson sugiere que la FTC podría seguir ese rumbo bajo su liderazgo.

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

• “historial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8.1, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 15 December 2025