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▪ I. ˈchronique
Forms: 4–5 cronique, 5 -yque, -yke, 5–6 -ike, 6 chronik, 7 chronique.
[a. OF. cronique, ad. med.L. cronica, chronica, -æ a chronicle, from L. chronica, -orum pl., a. Gr. χρονικά annals (also chronology), lit. ‘things’ or ‘matters of time’, f. χρόνος time.]
A chronicle, narrative of events in order of date.
c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 388 If a Rethor couþe faire endite He in a Cronique mighte saufly write As for a souereyn notabilite. 1393Gower Conf. I. 67, I find ensample in a cronique. 1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 233/4 After the cronyques he lyued lxxxviii yere. 1536Pilgr. Tale 85 in Thynne Animadv. 79 The cronikis old from kynge Arthur he could reherse. 1560Rolland Crt. Venus i. 298 In Chronik and Scriptour. 1671L. Addison West Barbary 74 (Todd) The best chronique that can be now compiled. 1890E. Dowson Let. 23 Feb. (1967) 138, I will endeavour to send you the accustomed chronique. 1923F. M. Ford Let. 8 Nov. (1965) 157, I would add about three pages of Romance analysis in my chroniques. 1954W. Stevens Let. 13 Dec. (1967) 857 He either writes chroniques or reviews, or both, for the Music Quarterly.
▪ II. chronique
obs. form of chronic a. |