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  1.  Not chronological; not arranged in order of time; not in accordance with chronology.

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1763.  Burn, Eccl. Law, II. 320. This is unchronological and absurd.

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1801.  R. Patton, Asiat. Mon., 149. The history is called, ‘A modern unchronological Account of Bengal.’

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1841.  L. Hunt, Seer, II. (1864), 18. But the truth of the painting makes amends, as in the unchronological pictures of old masters.

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1882.  Farrar, Early Chr., II. 348, note. The assertion … is an unchronological guess.

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  2.  Of persons: Not skilled in, not observing, chronology.

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1817.  Byron, Lett. to Murray, 26 April. What is necessary but a bust and … a date? the last for the unchronological, of whom I am one.

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1827.  G. S. Faber, Sacr. Calend. Prophecy (1844), I. 29. All the matters, which unchronological prophets describe as taking place at the epoch of the Restoration of Judah.

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  Hence Unchronologically adv.

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1879.  Farrar, St. Paul (1883), 7. Mentioned only so cursorily,… so unchronologically, that scarcely one of them can be dwelt upon.

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