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unchronoˈlogical, a.
[un-1 7.]
1. Not chronological; not arranged in order of time; not in accordance with chronology.
1763Burn Eccl. Law II. 320 This is unchronological and absurd. 1801R. Patton Asiat. Mon. 149 The history is called, ‘A modern unchronological Account of Bengal’. 1841L. Hunt Seer ii. (1864) 18 But the truth of the painting makes amends, as in the unchronological pictures of old masters. 1882Farrar Early Chr. II. 348 note, The assertion..is an unchronological guess.
2. Of persons: Not skilled in, not observing, chronology.
1817Byron Let. to Murray 26 Apr., What is necessary but a bust and..a date? the last for the unchronological, of whom I am one. 1827G. S. Faber Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844) I. 29 All the matters, which unchronological prophets describe as taking place at the epoch of the Restoration of Judah.
Hence unchronoˈlogically adv.
1879Farrar St. Paul (1883) 7 Mentioned only so cursorily,..so unchronologically, that scarcely one of them can be dwelt upon. |