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单词 anachronize
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anachronizev.

Brit. /əˈnakrənʌɪz/, U.S. /əˈnækrəˌnaɪz/
Forms: 1700s– anachronize, 1800s– anachronise.
Origin: A borrowing from Greek. Etymon: Greek ἀναχρονίζειν.
Etymology: < Hellenistic Greek ἀναχρονίζειν to be late in doing, (in passive) to be an anachronism < ancient Greek ἀνα- ana- prefix + χρόνος time (see chronic adj.) + -ίζειν -ize suffix. Compare earlier anachronism n. Compare also earlier anachronic adj., anachronical adj.
1. intransitive. To commit an anachronism or anachronisms; to place something in a period of time to which it does not belong (esp. one which is earlier than its true date).
ΚΠ
1768 [implied in: Polit. Reg. Sept. 151 Lest I should run the hazard of anachronizing, I will not say this bloody service was performed by Scotchmen, but if I recollect rightly..the mercenary Cretan Archers. (at anachronizing n.)].
1825 E. Taylor & S. Austin Lays of Minnesingers ii. 33 It may be permitted to us to anachronize so far as to borrow one short extract of this poet's writings..in order to illustrate the state of the language at that period.
1915 Jrnl. Hellenic Stud. 35 87 The Cycle anachronises with eagerness, and admits into the heroic age the Greek colonies.
2012 M. Z. Brettler et al. Bible & Believer 8 Consciously or not, writers from this period and later periods typically anachronized when they interpreted, making biblical figures fit the ideas and ideals of their own period.
2. transitive. To make (a person or thing) anachronistic.
ΘΚΠ
the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > arrange chronologically [verb (transitive)] > assign to a certain date > to a wrong, later, or earlier date
misdate1577
antedate1609
to pull back1610
redate1611
transtime1647
reduce1714
anachronize1831
predate1854
down-date1949
1831 Dates & Distances 40 The beautiful structure is now anachronized by the statues of various papal worthies.
1868 J. R. Lowell in N. Amer. Rev. Apr. 648 One of his contemporaries who endeavored to anachronize himself, so to speak, and to subject his art..to the laws of classical composition.
1918 J. H. Baker After War—What? ix. 124 A dictated and fixed political science has ‘anachronized’ Germany.
2009 N. Imayatullah & D. L. Blaney in G. K. Bhambra & R. Shilliam Silencing Human Rights iii. 82 One place to look is in the very societies we have anachronized and thereby silenced.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2021; most recently modified version published online December 2021).
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