Forms: 4 croniculer, 4–5 -yculer, 4–6 cronicler, 5 cronykler, 6 chronocler, 6– chronicler. [f. CHRONICLE v. + -ER1.] A writer or compiler of a chronicle, a recorder of events.
1387. Trevisa, Higden (Rolls), I. 5 (Mätz.). Thro the diligence of croniclers.
c. 1400. Three Kings Cologne (1885), 46. Germanus … was a Croniclere of Cristis tyme.
1559. Myrr. Mag., Worcester, v. They be unwurthy the name of Croniclers.
1600. Shaks., A. Y. L., IV. i. 105. The foolish Chronoclers of that age.
a. 1839. Praed, Poems (1864), II. 108. Some aged chroniclers record Her hopes, her virtues, and her tomb.
1875. Jowett, Plato (ed. 2), I. 338. Plato was not, like Xenophon, a chronicler of facts.
fig. 1830. J. G. Strutt, Sylva Brit., Introd. The peasant … regards it at once as his chronicler and landmark.
1856. Kane, Arct. Expl., I. xxxi. 423. The ice-belt, sorry chronicler of winter’s progress.
