a. Also 7 -ique. [f. CHRONOLOGY, or its sources: see -IC.] Of or belonging to chronology; relating to the determination of dates and order of time.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 6. The root of Chronologique calculation.
1669. Gale, Crt. Gentiles, I. III. vi. 69. Chronologic science.
1859. De Quincey, Theban Sphinx, Wks. X. 237. Its usual chronologic date of nine centuries before Christ.
† b. subst. in pl. Obs.
1721–1800. Bailey, Chronologicks, Books treating of Chronology.
