Sentence examples for it was historically called from inspiring English sources

It was historically called acidum salis, muriatic acid, and spirits of salt because it was produced from rock salt and green vitriol (by Basilius Valentinus in the 15th century) and later from the chemically similar substances common salt and sulfuric acid (by Johann Rudolph Glauber in the 17th century).

Both creeds and confessions of faith were historically called symbols, and the teachings they contain are termed articles of faith or, sometimes, dogmas.

Two minerals, zincite and hemimorphite, have been historically called calamine.

"I'm aware of the sensitivity of the issue, but it's historically been called a massacre, and we don't feel qualified to change the name," Bishop David Fellhauer said.

Black Friday — as the day after Thanksgiving is called because it was, historically, the time when stores turned a profit, or went into the black, for the year — will have an early start.

Therefore it was historically empty.

— it was historically an urban game.

It was, historically speaking, a good price.

"It is, historically, an error".

It is historically illiterate.

"It is historically very apt.