a. [f. Gr. ἀνά up + χρόν-ος time + -OUS.] Involving anachronism; out of proper chronological position, out of date.
1854. Illustr. Lond. News, 30 Sept., 317. His impressions … were after all a mass of anachronous entanglement and historical confusion.
1880. C. H. Herford, Romant. & Class. Styles, 25, note. Chatterton was probably beguiled by the affected archaism of Spenser into the use of stanzas as anachronous as his language.
