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单词 chronology
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chronologyn.

/krəʊˈnɒlədʒi/
Forms: Also 1600s cronology.
Etymology: < modern Latin chronologia, < Greek χρόνος time + -λογία discourse: see -logy comb. form. (For pronunciation of first o see chronography n.) Apparently dating only from 16th cent. Chronologia temporum in Dionysii Historia comprehensorum, per L. Biragum, was published at Basle in 1532. Cotgrave has French chronologie.
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.
b. = chronography n. 1. Obsolete.
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).
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