v. trans. Also 7 crono-. [f. CHRONOLOGY: see -IZE.]
† 1. To chronicle, record. Obs.
1616. R. C., Times’ Whis., V. 2251. We will have the deed cronologizde.
1655. M. Carter, Hon. Rediv. (1673), 269. The black Book of Windsor that Chronologizes it on the … [date].
2. To apply chronology to, to arrange chronologically or reduce to a chronological system.
1846. Grote, Greece (1851), II. 25. The numerous and contradictory guesses … of the Greeks themselves in their attempts to chronologise their mythical narratives.
1884. Gairdner, Prof. Brewer’s Hen. VIII., Pref. p. v. To catalogue and chronologize a number of miscellaneous documents.
Hence Chronologizing vbl. sb.
1862. Lit. Churchman, VII. 232/1. Most persons are driven to some imperfect chronologizing of their own.
