Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One versed in chronology; one w,ho investigates or records the dates of past events and transactions. Also chronologist.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Same as chronologist.

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  • noun A chronologist.

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Examples

  • My uncle Toby was no chronologer — so not caring to advance one step but upon safe ground, he laid down his pipe deliberately upon the table, and rising up, and taking my mother most kindly by the hand, without saying another word, either good or bad, to her, he led her out after my father, that he might finish the ecclaircissement himself.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • My uncle Toby was no chronologer — so not caring to advance one step but upon safe ground, he laid down his pipe deliberately upon the table, and rising up, and taking my mother most kindly by the hand, without saying another word, either good or bad, to her, he led her out after my father, that he might finish the ecclaircissement himself.

    The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman 2003

  • Caius Sallustius Crispus, according to the statement of the ancient chronologer Hieronymus, was born in B.C. 86, at Amiternum, in the country of the Sabines (to the north-east of Rome), and died four years before the battle of Actium -- that is, in B.C. 34 or 35.

    C. Sallusti Crispi De Bello Catilinario Et Jugurthino 86 BC-34? BC Sallust

  • But alas, our authors have little difficulty in showing that, quite apart from the excellent Ussher's defects as a chronologer, the rib-story itself has to be dismissed as a Men's-State fable!

    The Dominant Sex: A Study in the Sociology of Sex Differentiation, by Mathilde and Mathias Vaerting; translated from the German by Eden and Cedar Paul 1923

  • In the "Depositio martyrum" of the chronologer of 354 it is mentioned that Sebastian was buried on the

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock 1840-1916 1913

  • He has the choice of being a chronologer or a ballad-monger-obsolete and unimportant occupations.

    South Wind Norman Douglas 1910

  • Nothing is to be call’d a fault in poetry, says Aristotle, but what is against the art; therefore a man may be an admirable poet without being an exact chronologer.

    Dedication Vergil 1909

  • He died there in the summer of 1627, and was succeeded as chronologer by Ben Jonson.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • He was frequently employed in composing pageants for the City of London, and in 1620 was appointed city chronologer.

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

  • Middleton and Jonson had held, of chronologer to the city of London, followed the King to Oxford to his loss, having previously had losses in

    A History of Elizabethan Literature George Saintsbury 1889

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