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HISTORICALLY

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 I. (adverb) 

Sense 1

Meaning:

With respect to history

Example:

this is historically interesting

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

historic (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Throughout history

Example:

historically they have never coexisted peacefully

Classified under:

Adverbs

Pertainym:

historical (belonging to the past; of what is important or famous in the past)

Credits

 Context examples: 

Studies of French clays—green clays historically used in France in mineral baths—show that the clays have antibacterial properties.

(New answer to MRSA, other 'superbug' infections: clay minerals?, NSF)

Historically, the benzene ring is denoted 'A'-ring, the pyran ring 'C' ring, and the phenyl ring 'B'-ring.

(Dietary Flavonoid, NCI Thesaurus/CRCH)

To determine the surface locations of the geysers, researchers employed the same process of triangulation used historically to survey geological features on Earth, such as mountains.

(101 Geysers on Icy Saturn Moon, NASA)

With the rise of methane emissions into the atmosphere, scientists historically thought that might cause the amount of hydroxyl radicals to be used up on the global scale and, as a result, extend methane's lifetime, currently estimated to be nine years.

(Greenhouse Gas ‘Detergent’ Recycles Itself in Atmosphere, NASA)

Historically, a heterogeneous group of acute and chronic diseases, including rheumatoid arthritis, systemic lupus erythematosus, progressive systemic sclerosis, dermatomyositis, etc. This classification was based on the notion that collagen was equivalent to connective tissue, but with the present recognition of the different types of collagen and the aggregates derived from them as distinct entities, the term collagen diseases now pertains exclusively to those inherited conditions in which the primary defect is at the gene level and affects collagen biosynthesis, post-translational modification, or extracellular processing directly.

(Collagen disease, NLM, Medical Subject Headings)

Historically, these conditions were believed to be the result of lack of blood flow to the brain.

(Lack of Oxygen, Not Blood Flow, Delays Brain Maturation in Preterm Infants, The Titi Tudorancea Bulletin)