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chronographer|krəʊˈnɒgrəfə(r)| Also 6 -ier. [f. chronography, or Gr. χρονογράϕ-ος, F. chronographe + -er.] A writer of chronography, a chronicler, chronologist.
1548Hall Chron. (1809) 55 Let men reade the Chronicles and peruse our Englishe Chronographiers. 1550Bale Image Both Ch. (1560) B, Chronographers and historianes. 1577–87Holinshed Chron. III. 940/1 Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer. a1734North Lives I. Pref. 15 [He] may be a chronographer, but a very imperfect or rather insipid historian. 1886Q. Rev. Apr. 312 Westminster had long ago had her chronographer. |