单词 | chronology |
释义 | chronologyn. 1. a. The science of computing and adjusting time or periods of time, and of recording and arranging events in the order of time; computation of time, assignation of events to their correct dates. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] chronology1593 chronography1611 chronologue1658 1593 R. Harvey Philadelphus 15 When they beganne to Rule. How long they ruled. This part of History is named Chronology. 1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 13 If Chronology had not contradicted it, it would have been concluded, that he had been an Auditour of Pythagoras himself. 1841 M. Elphinstone Hist. India I. iii. iii. 261 We gain a link to connect the chronology of India with that of Europe. 1878 W. E. Gladstone Homer 46 Of chronology, the ordinary framework of history in which the succession of its events is adjusted, Homer knows nothing. 1878 C. Stanford Symbols Christ (new ed.) i. 7 At variance with the dates of Hebrew chronology. ΚΠ 1604 R. Cawdrey Table Alphabet. Chronologie, storie of times past. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor Chronologie, the knowledge of Old Stories. 1623 in Cockeram 2. A chronological table, list, or treatise. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > chronological list or arrangement chronography1548 chronology1604 record1611 chronology1614 datebook1647 timescale1828 timeline1907 1614 J. Selden Titles of Honor 6 The testimonie of those which out of the more ancient authors haue transcribed their Chronologies. 1635 J. Swan Speculum Mundi ii. §1. 29 Mercator in his Chronologie seems to alledge some other reasons. 1666 W. Dugdale Origines Juridiciales (title page) Also a Chronologie of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers of the great Seal. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1593 |
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