chronologer
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English
Etymology
From chronology + -er.[1]
Noun
chronologer (plural chronologers)
- A chronologist.
- 1566, John Knox, The History of the Reformation in Scotland:
- The most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in December.
- 1907, John L. Myres, “The 'list of Thalassocracies' in Eusebius: a reply”, in The Journal of Hellenic Studies, volume 27, page 129:
- My whole contention is, in face, that we know enough, by this time, from Egyptian and other non-Hellenistic sources, to be able to assert that neigher Eusebius, nor Trogus, nor any other Hellenistic or Graeco-Roman chronologer knew anything of value about such matters as the foundation of Trapezus […]
References
- ^ “chronologer, n.”, in OED Online
, Oxford: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.
