chronographer
(krəʊˈnɒgrəfə(r))
Also 6 -ier.
[f. chronography, or Gr. χρονογράϕ-ος, F. chronographe + -er.]
A writer of chronography, a chronicler, chronologist.
| 1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 55 Let men reade the Chronicles and peruse our Englishe Chronographiers. 1550 Bale Image Both Ch. (1560) B, Chronographers and historianes. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 940/1 Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer. a 1734 North Lives I. Pref. 15 [He] may be a chronographer, but a very imperfect or rather insipid historian. 1886 Q. Rev. Apr. 312 Westminster had long ago had her chronographer. |