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- adjective Half or party historical.
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- adjective Half or partly
historical .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Someday when I have a year or two to spare I ought to count up all the different semihistorical figures who have been comprehensively proved to be the Real King Arthur.
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These contests range from mythical encounters in the heavens to the semihistorical rivalries of chiefs.
The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915
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This is, on the surface, a collection of semihistorical essays and tales clustering around the ancient palace, in
Outlines of English and American Literature : an Introduction to the Chief Writers of England and America, to the Books They Wrote, and to the Times in Which They Lived William Joseph Long 1909
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English language, the great semihistorical figure of Arthur, together with his Knights of the Round Table, and all their romantic exploits, had wellnigh died out of the memory of the English people when Tennyson published his Idylls of the King
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