a. [f. as prec. + -ISTIC.] Of the nature of, or involving, anachronism.
1775. T. Warton, Eng. Poetry (1840), II. xxiii. 303. The anachronistic improprieties, which this poem contains.
1876. G. Meredith, Beauch. Career, II. xi. 199. He glanced contemptuously at his uncle Everard’s anachronistic notions of what was fair in war.
1882. Daily News, 4 May, 5/3. The position of the Church of England is anachronistic and cannot last.
