historicize

• historicise

historic +‎ -ize

historicize (third-person singular simple present historicizes, present participle historicizing, simple past and past participle historicized)

1. (transitive, intransitive) To treat from the perspective of history or historicism
   • 2007 October 19, Roberta Smith, “Sensualist With a Cause in Old Vienna”, in New York Times‎:

     The breaking point came in 1900 with the hostile reaction to his “Philosophy,” a public commission for the University of Vienna in which Klimt’s historicizing realism began to turn toward a darker, more distorted Symbolist treatment of figures and space.