Also 7 cronologer. [f. CHRONOLOGY + -ER1.] One who studies chronology, one who investigates the date and order in time of events; a chronologist.
a. 1572. Knox, Hist. Ref., Pref. (1644), c 3 (R.). The most exact Chronologers tells us, that Christ was born in October, and not in December.
1616. R. C., Times Whis., vii. 3167. Recorded by cronologers.
1625. Cooke, in Harl. Misc. (Malham), IV. 36. Marianus … is reputed, by your Baronius, Nobilis Chronographus, a worthy chronologer.
1783. Hailes, Antiq. Chr. Ch., ii. 28. Chronologers judge the conversion of St. Paul to have happened in the very last year of Tiberius.
1857. Gladstone, in Oxf. Ess., 50. A region, essentially mythical, neither approachable by the critic nor measurable by the chronologer.
