chroniclen.
/ˈkrɒnɪk(ə)l/ 1.
a. A detailed and continuous register of events in order of time; a historical record, esp. one in which the facts are narrated without philosophic treatment, or any attempt at literary style.
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society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun]
historyeOE
chronicle1303
storya1382
chroniquec1386
memoryc1425
historialc1487
annals1569
res gestae1587
fasts1606
fasti1617
archive1638
time book1865
1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 9239 Yn þe Kronykeles hyt ys wryte.
c1330 R. Mannyng Chron. (1810) 248 Þei brouht þe cronykles, þat wer in Scotland.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1869) II. 77 Broþer Ranulf..compiled and made þis present cronicle.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 104 Cronycle or cronykylle, cronica, historia.
c1475 Partenay 1223 As ther cornicles shewith openly.
1480 W. Caxton Chron. Eng. cii. 85 Abbots, Pryours, & men of relygyon wryten the lyues & the dedes of kynges..And therof made grete bokes and lete calle hem cronycles.
1541 R. Barnes Wks. (1573) 186/1 Out of Autenticke crownycles.
1555 R. Eden tr. S. von Herberstein Rerum moscouiticarum commentarii in tr. Peter Martyr of Angleria Decades of Newe Worlde f. 290v As theyr crownacles make mention.
1559 D. Lindsay Test. Papyngo l. 311 in Wks. (1931) I The Cronecklis to knaw I the exhorte.
1726 J. Swift Gulliver I. ii. i. 10 Recorded for ever in the Chronicles of that Empire.
1841 I. D'Israeli Amenities Lit. II. 21 Chronicles were written when the science of true history had yet no existence.
1867 W. Stubbs Gesta Regis Henrici II Pref. 11.
b. figurative.
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1600 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 iv. iii. 126 The old folk, (Times doting chronicles ). View more context for this quotation
1609 W. Shakespeare Troilus & Cressida iv. vii. 86 Let me embrace thee [Nestor] good old Chronicle, That hast so long walkt hand in hand with time. View more context for this quotation
1794 R. J. Sulivan View of Nature V. 121 The progress and improvement of society..is a chronicle of inestimable value.
1821 Ld. Byron Sardanapalus ii. i. 61 The stars, Which are your chronicles.
2. spec. Chronicles n. name of two of the historical books of the Old Testament.
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1535 Bible (Coverdale) The first boke of the Cronicles, called Paralipomenon.
1764 T. H. Croker et al. Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. I. (at cited word) In effect, the..chronicles are an abridgement of sacred history to the return of the Jews from the Babylonish captivity.
1837 Penny Cycl. VII. 129/2 Ezra..is supposed to have died a year or two after compiling the Chronicles.
3.
a. gen. A record, register, narrative, account.
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society > communication > record > [noun] > a record
chroniclec1380
record1399
calends1470
blazon1574
calendara1616
anagraph1656
remembrancer1671
the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account
talec1200
historyc1230
sawc1320
tellinga1325
treatisec1374
chroniclec1380
process?1387
legendc1390
prosec1390
pistlec1395
treatc1400
relationc1425
rehearsal?a1439
report?a1439
narrationc1449
recorda1450
count1477
redec1480
story1489
recount1490
deductiona1532
repetition1533
narrative1539
discourse1546
account1561
recital1561
enarrative1575
legendary1577
enarration1592
recite1594
repeat1609
texture1611
recitation1614
rendera1616
prospect1625
recitement1646
tell1743
diegesis1829
récit1915
narrative line1953
c1380 J. Wyclif Sel. Wks. III. 299 Lesyngis, fablis and veyn cronyclis.
1623 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Henry VIII i. ii. 75 Ignorant Tongues, which neither know My faculties nor person, yet will be The Chronicles of my doing. View more context for this quotation
1878 J. Morley Byron in Crit. Misc. 216 The long chronicle of its manifold experiences.
b. Hence: A frequent title of newspapers, e.g. The Daily Chronicle, Weekly Chronicle, etc.
Compounds
C1. attributive and in other combinations, as chronicle-sheet, chronicle-writer. In chronicle drama, etc., used in imitation of chronicle history n. at Compounds 2.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > recorder of time and events
chroniclera1387
computista1398
compotister1413
chronographer1548
chronologera1572
chronicle-writer1577
chronologist1611
chroniclist1620
datary1655
timist1684
chronist1870
dendrochronologist1937
society > communication > record > written record > compiler or keeper of written records > [noun] > compiler of historical records
chroniclera1387
commentator?a1475
chronographer1548
annalist1569
chronicle-writer1577
chroniclist1620
annualist1653
society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1577 R. Holinshed Hist. Eng. 45/1 in Chron. I The common opinion of our Chronicle writers.
1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar i Our chronicle sheet which hangs in the refectory.
1902 F. E. Schelling Eng. Chron. Play 30 The English Chronicle Drama falls naturally into two groups.
1903 T. Hardy Dynasts Pref. p. ix In devising this chronicle-piece no attempt has been made to create that completely organic structure of action, and closely-webbed development of character and motive, which are demanded in a drama strictly self-contained.
1927 Observer 12 June 15/2 ‘Martha Washington’ is a chronicle piece, after the manner of ‘Abraham Lincoln’, but there is no drama in it from start to finish.
C2.
†chronicle history n. an Elizabethan descriptive title for plays based on historical matter such as is found in Edward Hall and Ralph Holinshed.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > drama > a play > [noun] > other types of play
king play1469
king game1504
historya1509
chronicle history1600
monology1608
horseplaya1627
piscatory1631
stock play1708
petite pièce1712
mimic1724
ballad opera1730
ballad farce1735
benefit-play1740
potboiler1783
monodrama1793
extravaganza1797
theo-drama1801
monodrame1803
proverb1803
stock piece1804
bespeak1807
ticket-night1812
dramaticle1813
monopolylogue1819
pièce d'occasion1830
interlude1831
mimea1834
costume piece1834
mummers' play1849
history play1850
gag-piece1860
music drama1874
well-made1881
playlet1884
two-decker1884
slum1885
kinderspiel1886
thrill1886
knockabout1887
two-hander1888
front-piece1889
thriller1889
shadow-play1890
mime play1894
problem play1894
one-acter1895
sex play1899
chronicle drama1902
thesis-play1902
star vehicle1904
folk-play1905
radio play1908
tab1915
spy play1919
one-act1920
pièce à thèse1923
dance-drama1924
a mess of plottage1926
turkey1927
weepie1928
musical1930
cliffhanger1931
mime drama1931
triangle drama1931
weeper1934
spine-chiller1940
starrer1941
scorcher1942
teleplay1947
straw-hatter1949
pièce noire1951
pièce rose1951
tab show1951
conversation piece1952
psychodrama1956
whydunit1968
mystery play1975
State of the Nation1980
1600 (title) The Cronicle History of Henry the fift.
1608 (title) M. William Shak-speare: His True Chronicle Historie of the life and death of King Lear and his three Daughters.
1634 J. Ford (title) The chronicle historie of Perkin Warbeck.
1886 F. G. Fleay (title) A Chronicle History of the Life and Work of William Shakespeare.]
chronicle song n. U.S. a ballad of a historical nature.
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1853 J. G. Baldwin Flush Times Alabama 149 He was the merriest..feller..and can sing more chronicle songs than one of these show fellers.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
chroniclev.
/ˈkrɒnɪk(ə)l/ a. To enter or record in a chronicle.
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society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > record in history or chronicle [verb (transitive)]
chroniclea1440
storyc1449
historyc1475
historifya1586
annal1606
annalize1616
storify1616
chronography1634
historiate1780
a1440 Sir Eglam. 1339 In Rome thys geste cronyculd ys.
c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iii. 1329 I wyll have cronekyllyd þe ȝer and þe reynne.
1581 R. Mulcaster Positions xxxviii. 172 I beleeue that..which is cronicled of them.
1798 R. Southey Occas. Pieces xi Whose obscurer name No proud historian's page will chronicle.
1881 J. Russell Haigs of Bemersyde Introd. 9 We do not write the history of a nation when we have chronicled its battles and tabulated its kings.
b. gen. To put on record, to register.
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society > communication > record > written record > record in writing [verb (transitive)]
writeeOE
awriteeOE
markOE
titlea1325
record1340
registera1393
accordc1450
chronicle1460
to write upa1475
calendar1487
enrol1530
prickc1540
scripture1540
to set down1562
report1600
reservea1616
tabulatea1646
to take down1651
actuate1658
to commit to writing (also paper)1695
to mark down1881
slate1883
1460 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 16 Now shall oure treson be cornicled for evar.
a1616 W. Shakespeare Two Gentlemen of Verona (1623) i. i. 41 He that is so yoked by a foole, Me thinkes should not be chronicled for wise. View more context for this quotation
a1616 W. Shakespeare Othello (1622) ii. i. 163 To suckle fooles, and chronicle small Beere. View more context for this quotation
1781 W. Cowper Let. 6 Oct. (1979) I. 528 There is nothing agreeable..in being chronicled for a dunce.
1866 H. P. Liddon Bampton Lect. (1875) viii. 489 Christ's victory is chronicled..in the conventional standard of modern society.
Derivatives
chronicled adj.
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society > communication > record > [adjective] > recorded
expressc1386
recorded1577
chronicled1826
society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [adjective] > recorded in history
storied1646
commentarieda1657
historieda1816
chronicled1826
1826 W. Scott Woodstock I. iii. 93 She shall have chronicled example for it.
1862 D. Wilson Prehistoric Man I. i. 8 Chronicled memorials of older phases of a native civilisation.
ˈchronicling n. and adj.
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society > communication > record > written record > [noun] > action of recording in writing
recordationa1500
entrance1588
reportinga1626
calendaring1671
entry1712
recordal1822
committal1833
chalking1849
paperwork1861
chronicling1863
overbooking1902
rapportage1903
notarization1930
society > communication > record > written record > historical record or chronicle > [noun] > recording in chronicle
annalism1808
chronicling1863
1863 D. Wilson Prehistoric Ann. Scotl. (ed. 2) II. iv. i. 168 Genealogical chroniclings of earlier periods.
1885 Athenæum 24 Oct. 529/1 There is quite enough candid chronicling and sharp criticism in these volumes.
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