Viconianadj.
/vɪˈkəʊnɪən/ Designating the theories or doctrines of Vico, esp. those concerned with the historical development of culture and its cyclical or repetitive character.
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the world > time > relative time > the past > history or knowledge about the past > [adjective] > of types of history
archaeological1714
world-historical1822
mytho-historic1831
world-historic1853
proto-historic1858
museographic1860
Assyriological1881
historionomical1881
psychohistorical1895
theoretico-historical1900
proto-historical1909
museographical1935
comparative-historical1937
Warburgian1956
Viconian1957
mytho-historical1977
1957 N. Frye Anat. Crit. i. 62 Joyce and his Viconian theory of history.
1967 Listener 23 Mar. 391/3 Implying that the work should properly be..bound in such a way as to have no first or last page, a very embodiment of Viconian circularity.
1976 T. Eagleton Crit. & Ideol. iv. 157 Human societies are specific sectors of that cosmic process, determined by its unalterable laws, moving inexorably through their Viconian cycles.
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