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Webster 1913 Edition


Chronologer

Chro-nol′o-ger

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Noun.
Same as
Chronologist
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Chro-nol′o-gist

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Chro-nol′o-ger

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Noun.
[Gr. [GREEK].]
A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology.
That learned noise and dust of the
chronologist
is wholly to be avoided.
Locke.
THe most exact
chronologers
tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December.
John Knox.

Webster 1828 Edition


Chronologer

CHRONOLOGER

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Definition 2024


chronologer

chronologer

English

Noun

chronologer (plural chronologers)

  1. A chronologist.
    • 1566, John Knox, The History of the Reformation in Scotland:
      The most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December.
    • 1907, John L. Myres, “The 'list of Thalassocracies' in Eusebius: a reply”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 27, page 129:
      My whole contention is, in face, that we know enough, by this time, from Egyptian and other non-Hellenistic sources, to be able to assert that neigher Eusebius, nor Trogus, nor any other Hellenistic or Graeco-Roman chronologer knew anything of value about such matters as the foundation of Trapezus {{..}}