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chronologer|krəʊˈnɒlədʒə(r)|
Also 7 cronologer.
[f. chronology + -er1.]
One who studies chronology, one who investigates the date and order in time of events; a chronologist.
a1572Knox Hist. Ref. Pref. (R.), The most exact chronologers tell us, that Christ was born in October, and not in December. 1616R. C. Times Whis. vii. 3167 Recorded by cronologers. 1625Cooke in Harl. Misc. (Malham) IV. 36 Marianus..is reputed, by your Baronius, Nobilis Chronographus, a worthy chronologer. 1783Ld. Hailes Antiq. Chr. Ch. ii. 28 Chronologers judge the conversion of St. Paul to have happened in the very last year of Tiberius. 1857Gladstone in Oxf. Ess. 50 A region, essentially mythical, neither approachable by the critic nor measurable by the chronologer. |