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▪ I. chronography|krəʊˈnɒgrəfɪ|
Also 6 crono-.
[a. Gr. χρονογραϕία abstr. n. f. χρονογράϕ-ος time-recording, a chronicler; f. χρόνο-ς time + γράϕ-ειν to write. (In this and the allied words in which chro- is stressless, the o is variously made (əʊ) or |ɒ|, passing into |ə|.)]
1. ‘The description of past time, the chronological arrangement of historical events’ (J.).
1548Hall Chron. Hen. IV. an. 1 (R.) In whiche cronographye, yf a kinge gaue to them possessions..he was called a saynct. 1570–6Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 15 My purpose.. is to write a topographie, or description of places, and no chronographie, or storie of times. 1654R. Vilvain Chronogr. 1 Chronography [is] a discussion or disquisition of Times themselfs. 1756C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 124 Recorded in a kind of monkish chronography. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 115 Notes..transcribed so as to constitute complete chronographies.
†b. = chronology. Obs.
1611Coryat Crudities 432 The Ecclesiasticall history of Eusebius..he hath illustrated with a learned chronographie. 1667Phil. Trans. II. 575 Two Tables of Vniversall Chronography. a1734North Lives (1826) I. 8, I..may err in some points of Chronography.
†2. Position and relations in time. Obs.
1612–15Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xi, Consider the topography, the aitiology, the chronography of this miracle.
†3. Rhet. (see quot.) Obs.
1589Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 246 If we describe the time or season of the yeare, as winter, summer..noone, euening, or such like: we call such description the counterfait time, cronographia. Examples are euery where to be found. 1657J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 223 Chronographie is a Rhetorical Exornation, whereby the Orator describes any time or season for delectations sake.
4. The making of chronograms. rare.
1882J. Hilton Chronogr. 11 Composed..by a young aspirant to the art of chronography.
▪ II. † chroˈnography, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec.]
To chronicle, recount.
1634Sir T. Herbert Trav. 190 Touching which Pagod, the Singales (their Priests) Chronography That once Johna their King held this monstrous Daemon in derision. |