chronicaladj.
/ˈkrɒnɪkəl/ΘΚΠ
the mind > language > linguistics > study of grammar > tense > [adjective]
chronical1530
temporal1805
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 92 The frenche tonge useth never augmentation neyther chronical nor sillabical in theyr fyrst sillables.
2. Of or pertaining to time, regulated by time.
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the world > time > [adjective]
chronic1604
chronical1647
temporaneous1656
timewarda1850
chronal1875
temporal1877
the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [adjective]
vespertinec1503
acronic1565
acronical1585
vesperal1623
chronical1647
cronicall1647
vespertinal1839
post-cenal1848
after-supper1879
1647 Torshell in Phœnix (1721) I. 102 The continuance and Chronical method of the Scripture-history.
a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) v. ii. 127 Our knowledge is Chronical and successive, and cannot grasp all things at once.
1802 J. Bentham Princ. Penal Law in Wks. (1843) I. 456 Punishments of the pecuniary or chronical class.. are susceptible of being exactly measured.
1859 R. F. Burton Lake Regions Central Afr. in Jrnl. Royal Geogr. Soc. 29 168 According to the people, whose greatest chronical measure is a Masika, or rainy season.
3.
a. Of disease: = chronic adj. 2.
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the world > time > duration > [adjective] > long-lasting or enduring
longeOE
longsomeeOE
long of lifeOE
lastinga1225
cleaving1340
continualc1340
dwellingc1380
long-livinga1382
everlastingc1384
long-duringa1387
long-lasting?a1400
long-liveda1400
broadc1400
permanable?c1422
perseverant?a1425
permanentc1425
perdurable?a1439
continuedc1440
abiding1448
unremoved1455
eternalc1460
long-continued1464
continuing1526
long-enduring1527
enduring1532
immortal1538
diuturn?1541
veterated1547
resiant?1567
stayinga1568
well-wearinga1568
substantive1575
pertinacious1578
extant1581
ceaseless1590
marble1596
of length1597
longeval1598
diuturnal1599
nine-lived1600
chronic1601
unexhausted1602
chronical1604
endurable1607
continuant1610
indeflourishing1610
aged1611
indurant1611
continuatea1616
perennious1628
seculara1631
undiscontinueda1631
continuated1632
untransitory1632
long-spun1633
momently1641
stative1643
outliving1645
constant1653
long-descended1660
voluminousa1661
perduring1664
perdurant1671
livelong1673
perennial1676
longeve1678
consequential1681
unquenched1703
lifelong1746
momentary1755
inveterate1780
stabile1797
persistent1826
unpassing1831
all-time1846
year-long1846
teak-built1847
lengthful1855
long-term1867
long haul1873
sticky1879
week-to-week1879
perenduring1883
long-range1885
longish1889
long-time1902
long run1904
long-life1915
the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > characteristics > [adjective] > chronic
rooteda1398
confirmed1398
continual1528
inveterate?1541
veterated1547
chronic1601
chronical1604
continent cause1605
continuatea1616
radicated1631
radicate1720
settled1811
1604 T. Wright Succinct Philos. Declar. Clymactericall Yeeres 13 There are two sorts of diseases, sharpe and cronicall.
1690 J. Child Disc. Trade ix. 157 Desperate and acute Diseases, as well as Chronical.
1762 O. Goldsmith Life R. Nash 115 The disorders of the poor..were mostly chronical.
1805 W. Saunders Treat. Mineral Waters (ed. 2) 198 Afflicted with..a chronical diarrhœa, etc.
1817 S. T. Coleridge Biogr. Lit. 20 The acute disease, changing into chronical.
b. transferred.
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the world > action or operation > continuing > [adjective] > continuous or without stop or pause (of action)
ithanda1300
continualc1340
unstintingc1380
perpetuala1382
unfailinga1382
unceasing1382
everlastinga1398
restless?a1439
continuedc1440
running1492
incessant1532
uncessant1548
incessable1552
universal1561
never-ceasing1567
still1570
unpausing1585
ceaseless1590
uncessable1596
indesinent1601
uninterrupted1602
unceasable1604
Sabbathless1605
unceased1605
unintermissive1610
unstaying1616
constant1653
jugial1654
uninterrupted1657
stopless1660
uncheque1671
chronical1672
unarrested1733
well-sustained1743
uninterrupt1776
unsuspended1792
sustained1796
pauseless1820
unhalting1832
persistent1842
unresting1856
unbreaking1870
non-stop1915
1672–3 A. Marvell Rehearsal Transpros'd II. 93 Chronical Negligence and Ignorance.
1682 H. More Annot. Lux Orientalis 35 in Two Choice & Useful Treat. Those seven Chronical Sleepers that slept in a Cave from Decius his time to the reign of Theodosius junior.
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