anachronistically

a·nach·ro·nism

A0274400 (ə-năk′rə-nĭz′əm)n.1. The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.2. One that is out of its proper or chronological order, especially a person or practice that belongs to an earlier time: "A new age had plainly dawned, an age that made the institution of a segregated picnic seem an anachronism" (Henry Louis Gates, Jr.).

---

[French anachronisme, from New Latin anachronismus, from Late Greek anakhronismos, from anakhronizesthai, to be an anachronism : Greek ana-, ana- + Greek khronizein, to take time (from khronos, time).]

---

a·nach′ro·nis′tic, a·nach′ro·nous (-nəs) adj.a·nach′ro·nis′ti·cal·ly, a·nach′ro·nous·ly adv.

Thesaurus

Adv.

1.

anachronistically - in an anachronistic manner; "let's look at this phenomenon anachronistically"