a. [f. CHRONOGRAPH + -IC.]
1. Of, or pertaining to, a chronograph.
1867–72. G. Chambers, Astron., VIII. 777. The chronographic method of recording transits.
1868. Lockyer, Elem. Astron., § 534. 275. By … the chronographic method, the apparatus used being called a chronograph, the observer is enabled to confine his attention to the star.
1889. Athenæum, 4 May, 563/3. By comparing the actual writing with the record on the chronographic cylinder, a complete solution of the time-question could be obtained.
2. Chronogrammatic. (CHRONOGRAPH 1.) rare.
[1634 (title), Chronographica Gratulatio in Felicissimum Adventum Serenissimi Cardinalis Ferdinandi Hispaniarum Infantis (in Hilton).]
1882. J. Hilton, Chronograms, I. 449. The book is chronographic throughout…. There are 1081 chronograms. Ibid., Pref. p. xi. They were occasionally constrained, by chronographic necessity, to use inelegant Latin.
