Also 6 crono-. [a. Gr. χρονογραφία abstr. sb. f. χρονογράφ-ος time-recording, a chronicler; f. χρόνο-ς time + γράφ-ειν to write. (In this and the allied words in which chro- is stressless, the o is variously made o or ǫ, passing into ŏ, ŏ, ə.)]
1. ‘The description of past time, the chronological arrangement of historical events’ (J.).
1548. Hall, Chron., Hen. IV. an. 1 (R.). In whiche cronographye, yf a kinge gaue to them possessions … he was called a saynct.
1570–6. Lambarde, Peramb. Kent (1826), 15. My purpose … is to write a topographie, or description of places, and no chronographie, or storie of times.
1654. R. Vilvain, Chronogr., 1. Chronography [is] a discussion or disquisition of Times themselfs.
1756. C. Lucas, Ess. Waters, II. 124. Recorded in a kind of monkish chronography.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 115. Notes … transcribed so as to constitute complete Chronographies.
† b. = CHRONOLOGY. Obs.
1611. Coryat, Crudities, 432. The Ecclesiasticall history of Eusebius … he hath illustrated with a learned chronographie.
1667. Phil. Trans., II. 575. Two Tables of Vniversall Chronography.
a. 1734. North, Lives (1826), I. 8. I … may err in some points of Chronography.
† 2. Position and relations in time. Obs.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. N. T., IV. xi. Consider the topography, the aitiology, the chronography of this miracle.
† 3. Rhet. (see quot.) Obs.
1589. Puttenham, Eng. Poesie, III. xix. (Arb.), 246. If we describe the time or season of the yeare, as winter, summer … noone, euening, or such like: we call such description the counterfait time, cronographia. Examples are euery where to be found.
1657. J. Smith, Myst. Rhet., 223. Chronographie is a Rhetorical Exornation, whereby the Orator describes any time or season for delectations sake.
4. The making of chronograms. rare.
1882. J. Hilton, Chronograms, 11. Composed … by a young aspirant to the art of chronography.
