Also 7 cronology. [ad. mod.L. chronologia, f. Gr. χρόνο-ς time + -λογία discourse: see -LOGY. (For pronunciation of first o see CHRONOGRAPHY.)
App. dating only from 16th c. Chronologia temporum in Dionysii Historia comprehensorum, per L. Biragum, was published at Basle in 1532. Cotgr. has F. chronologie.]
1. The science of computing and adjusting time or periods of time, and of recording and arranging events in the order of time; computation of time, assignation of events to their correct dates.
1593. R. Harvey, Philad., 15. When they beganne to Rule. How long they ruled. This part of History is named Chronology.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 13. If Chronology had not contradicted it, it would have been concluded, that he had been an Auditour of Pythagoras himself.
1841. Elphinstone, Hist. Ind., I. 261. We gain a link to connect the chronology of India with that of Europe.
1878. Gladstone, Prim. Homer, 46. Of chronology, the ordinary framework of history in which the succession of its events is adjusted, Homer knows nothing.
1878. C. Stanford, Symb. Christ, i. 7. At variance with the dates of Hebrew chronology.
† b. = CHRONOGRAPHY 1. Obs.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Chronologie, story of times past.
1616. Bullokar, Chronologie, the knowledge of Old Stories.
1623. so Cockeram.
2. A chronological table, list or treatise.
1614. Selden, Titles Hon., 6. The testimonie of those which out of the more ancient authors haue transcribed their Chronologies.
1635. Swan, Spec. M., ii. § 1 (1643), 30. Mercator in his Chronologie seems to alledge some other reasons.
1666. Dugdale, Orig. Jurid., Title-p., Also a Chronologie of the Lord Chancelors and Keepers of the great Seal.
