单词 | anachronical |
释义 | anachronicaladj. Involving an error in chronology; not in the correct chronological position or order; = anachronic adj. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [adjective] > assigned to a date > assigned to a wrong or different date antedated1573 post-dateda1631 anachronical1731 misdated1743 anachronic1754 foretimed1832 backdated1858 1731 Grub-St. Jrnl. 26 Aug. You have told two stories..without mentioning the least circumstance of time, to render them anachronical. 1849 Western Lit. Messenger Nov. 103/1 A curious Berwickshire legend, which, however, is palpably anachronical, attributes the introduction of potatoes into Scotland to that famous wizard of the north, Sir Michael Scott. 1974 Lat. Amer. Literary Rev. 2 26 Borges, in his story ‘Pierre Menard, author of the Quijote’, tells us that all reading, and consequently all writing, is anachronical. 2008 T. Dooley in P. Fitzgerald So I have thought of You p. xxxvi She wanted to incorporate the anachronical story of the discovery of the blue poppy in the high Himalayas in the early twentieth century. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < adj.1731 |
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