a. [f. Gr. ἀνά up, against + χρόν-ος time + -IC: cf. chronic.] Erroneous in date; out of right chronological position or order; characterized by anachronism.
1807. W. Taylor, in Ann. Rev., V. 502. The unconnected, the anachronic, the dissonant circumstances.
1819. Coleridge, Lect. Shaks., I. 276. The anachronic mixture … of the Roman republican … with his James-and-Charles-the-First zeal for legitimacy of descent … is amusing.
1879. G. Meredith, Egoist, I. Prel. 8. Better … have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre.
