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Chronologer   Listen
noun
Chronologer, Chronologist  n.  A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. "That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided." "THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Chronologer" Quotes from Famous Books



... our Famous English Chronologer, was born (saith Bale) in the Northern parts, and most likely in Yorkshire, being an Esquire of an eminent Parentage. He was a man equally addicted to Arms and Arts, spending his Youth in the ...
— The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) • William Winstanley

... an eminent textual scholar, treats the Pisistratean editor with no higher respect. In an Egyptian papyrus containing a fragment of Julius Africanus, a Christian chronologer, Mr. Allen finds him talking confidently of the Pisistratidae. They "stitched together the rest of the epic," but excised some magical formulae which Julius Africanus preserves. Mr. Allen remarks: "The statements about Pisistratus belong to a well-established category, ...
— Homer and His Age • Andrew Lang



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