单词 | prochronism |
释义 | prochronismn. An error in chronology that places an event earlier in time than its true date. Cf. anachronism n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > chronology > [noun] > assignment to a time or dating > assignment to a wrong time or date prolepsis1578 antichronism1612 anachronicism1614 anachronism1617 metachronism1617 parachronisma1641 prochronisma1646 achronism1674 parepochism1685 anachronizing1768 anticipation1774 a1646 J. Gregory Posthuma (1649) 174 An error..herein is called Anachronism:..either saith too much, and that is a Prochronism; or too little, and that is a Metachronism. 1677 R. Cary Palæologia Chronica ii. i. i. v. 105 Which seems to be a Prochronism of 25 Years. 1748 W. Weston Diss. Remarkable Wonders Antiq. ii. 72 Basnage..says, there is a prochronism of above two hundred years. 1788 j. Robertson Parian Chron. xiii. 160 There seems to be a considerable prochronism in this article. 1838 Archaeologia 27 252 The prochronisms in these [Towneley] Mysteries are very remarkable... Caiaphas sings mass. 1899 J. A. Gibbs Cotswold Village (ed. 2) 156 It is a prochronism to talk of the May-fly; for, as a matter of fact, the first ten days of June usually constitute the may-fly season. 1963 New Society 5 Sept. 5/2 History is full of prochronisms: those who try to fly before the internal combustion engine is invented. 1990 Times Lit. Suppl. 25 May 559/2 The narrative moves easily between the different periods, with only one instance of prochronism that I can detect. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1646 |
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