periodizern.
/ˈpɪərɪədʌɪzə/, U.S. /ˈpɪriədaɪzər/ A person who arranges the past or things in the past into periods.
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the world > time > period > [noun] > dividing time into periods > one who divides
periodizer1932
1932 Jrnl. Mod. Hist. 4 582 James Ralph, for example, one of the ablest of the journalist historians who were a type in the [eighteenth] century, saw a point missed by some later periodizers.
1959 Listener 20 Aug. 291/2 The fifteenth century has been a favourite hunting ground for the periodizers of history.
1997 Stud. Eng. Lit. 1500–1900 37 There are legitimate reasons behind the constitution of what earlier periodizers charitably and at times dismissively called the ‘age of revolution’.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1932- to make merchandy of
- to make merit with
- to make merry
- to make merry over
- to make merry with
- to make mickle of
- to make mien
- to make min of
- to make minced meat of
- to make mincemeat of
- to make mind
- to make minning
- to make minning of
- to make minstrelsy
- to make miration
- to make mirth
- to make mirths
- to make mischief
- to make moan
- to make mock at
- to make mock of
- to make mocks at
- to make mocks of
- to make money
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