▪ I. chronography
(krəʊˈnɒgrəfɪ)
Also 6 crono-.
[a. Gr. χρονογραϕία abstr. n. f. χρονογράϕ-ος time-recording, a chronicler; f. χρόνο-ς time + γράϕ-ειν to write. (In this and the allied words in which chro- is stressless, the o is variously made (əʊ) or (ɒ), passing into (ə).)]
1. ‘The description of past time, the chronological arrangement of historical events’ (J.).
| 1548 Hall Chron. Hen. IV. an. 1 (R.) In whiche cronographye, yf a kinge gaue to them possessions..he was called a saynct. 1570–6 Lambarde Peramb. Kent (1826) 15 My purpose.. is to write a topographie, or description of places, and no chronographie, or storie of times. 1654 R. Vilvain Chronogr. 1 Chronography [is] a discussion or disquisition of Times themselfs. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters II. 124 Recorded in a kind of monkish chronography. 1851 Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 115 Notes..transcribed so as to constitute complete chronographies. |
† b. = chronology. Obs.
| 1611 Coryat Crudities 432 The Ecclesiasticall history of Eusebius..he hath illustrated with a learned chronographie. 1667 Phil. Trans. II. 575 Two Tables of Vniversall Chronography. a 1734 North Lives (1826) I. 8, I..may err in some points of Chronography. |
† 2. Position and relations in time. Obs.
| 1612–15 Bp. Hall Contempl. N.T. iv. xi, Consider the topography, the aitiology, the chronography of this miracle. |
† 3. Rhet. (see quot.) Obs.
| 1589 Puttenham Eng. Poesie iii. xix. (Arb.) 246 If we describe the time or season of the yeare, as winter, summer..noone, euening, or such like: we call such description the counterfait time, cronographia. Examples are euery where to be found. 1657 J. Smith Myst. Rhet. 223 Chronographie is a Rhetorical Exornation, whereby the Orator describes any time or season for delectations sake. |
4. The making of chronograms. rare.
| 1882 J. Hilton Chronogr. 11 Composed..by a young aspirant to the art of chronography. |
▪ II. † chroˈnography, v. Obs. rare—1.
[f. prec.]
To chronicle, recount.
| 1634 Sir T. Herbert Trav. 190 Touching which Pagod, the Singales (their Priests) Chronography That once Johna their King held this monstrous Daemon in derision. |