chronology
(krəʊˈnɒlədʒɪ)
Also 7 cronology.
[ad. mod.L. chronologia, f. Gr. χρόνο-ς time + -λογία discourse: see -logy. (For pronunciation of first o see chronography.)
App. dating only from 16th c. Chronologia temporum in Dionysii Historia comprehensorum, per L. Biragum, was published at Basle in 1532. Cotgr. has F. chronologie.]
1. 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.
| 1593 R. Harvey Philad. 15 When they beganne to Rule. How long they ruled. This part of History is named Chronology. 1678 Cudworth Intell. Syst. 13 If Chronology had not contradicted it, it would have been concluded, that he had been an Auditour of Pythagoras himself. 1841 Elphinstone Hist. Ind. I. 261 We gain a link to connect the chronology of India with that of Europe. 1878 Gladstone Prim. Homer 46 Of chronology, the ordinary framework of history in which the succession of its events is adjusted, Homer knows nothing. 1878 Stanford Symb. Christ i. 7 At variance with the dates of Hebrew chronology. |
† b. = chronography 1. Obs.
| 1613 R. C. Table Alph. (ed. 3), Chronologie, story of times past. 1616 Bullokar, Chronologie, the knowledge of Old Stories. 1623 so Cockeram. |
2. A chronological table, list, or treatise.
| 1614 Selden Titles Hon. 6 The testimonie of those which out of the more ancient authors haue transcribed their Chronologies. 1635 Swan Spec. M. ii. §1 (1643) 30 Mercator in his Chronologie seems to alledge some other reasons. 1666 Dugdale Orig. Jurid. Title-p., Also a Chronologie of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers of the great Seal. |