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单词 chronography
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chronographyn.

/krəʊˈnɒɡrəfi/
Forms: Also 1500s crono-.
Etymology: < Greek χρονογραϕία abstract noun < χρονογράϕος time-recording, a chronicler; < χρόνος time + γράϕειν 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.
a. ‘The description of past time, the chronological arrangement of historical events’ (Johnson).
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > chronological list or arrangement
chronography1548
chronology1604
record1611
chronology1614
datebook1647
timescale1828
timeline1907
1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry IV f. xi In whiche cronographie, if a kyng gaue to them possessions..he was called a sainct.
1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 18 My purpose.. is to write a Topographie, or description of places, and no Chronographie, or storie of times.
1654 R. Vilvain Chronogr. 1 Chronography [is] a discussion or disquisition of Times themselfs.
1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters ii. 124 Recorded in a kind of monkish chronography.
1851 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. I. 115 Notes..transcribed so as to constitute complete chronographies.
b. = chronology n. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun]
chronology1593
chronography1611
chronologue1658
1611 T. Coryate Crudities sig. Kk5v The Ecclesiastical history of Eusebius,..he hath illustrated wiih [sic] a learned Chronographie.
1667 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) 2 575 Two Tables of Vniversall Chronography.
a1734 R. North Lives of Norths (1826) I. 8 I..may err in some points of Chronography.
2. Position and relations in time. Obsolete.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > [noun] > position or relations in time
chronography1634
1634 Bp. J. Hall Contempl. Hist. New Test. (STC 12640.5) 161 Consider..The Topography, the Artiology, the Chronography of this miracle.
3. Rhetoric. (see quot.) Obsolete.
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society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > description of time or season
chronography1589
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xix. 200 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.
1656 J. Smith Myst. Rhetorique Unvail'd 223 Chronographie is a Rhetorical Exornation, whereby the Orator describes any time or season for delectations sake.
4. The making of chronograms. rare.
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the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > chronogram > making of
chronography1882
1882 J. Hilton Chronograms 11 Composed..by a young aspirant to the art of chronography.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

chronographyv.

Etymology: < chronography n.
Obsolete. rare.
To chronicle, recount.
ΘΚΠ
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
1634 T. Herbert Relation Some Yeares Trauaile 190 Touching which Pagod, the Syngales (their Priests) Cronography. That once Iohna their King held this monstrous Dæmon in derision.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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