Definition of Chronicles

1. Proper noun. (biblical) One of the two Books of Chronicles in the Old Testament of the Bible. Sometimes abbreviated as Chr or Chron. ¹

2. Noun. (plural of chronicle) ¹

3. Verb. (third-person singular of chronicle) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Chronicles

1. chronicle [v] - See also: chronicle

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronicles

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chronic urticaria
chronic venous insufficiency
chronic vertigo
chronic wasting disease
chronical
chronically
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chronicities
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chroniclers
chronicles (current term)
chronicling
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chrono-oncology
chronoamperometric
chronoamperometry
chronobiologic
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chronobiologies
chronobiologist
chronobiologists

Literary usage of Chronicles

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"The title " chronicles " dates back to a comment by Jerome in his ... Range and Divisions: The Masoretic notes at the end of chronicles reckon 1656 ..."

2. History of Spanish Literature by George Ticknor (1891)
"GENERAL REMARKS ON THE SPANISH chronicles. chronicles of Particular Events. It should be borne in mind that we have thus far traced only the succession of ..."

3. Science and Literature in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance by P. L. Jacob (1878)
"Monastic chronicles.— chronicles from the Eighth to the Eleventh Century. ... Private chronicles and Lives of Illustrious Men.—Personal Memoirs. ..."

4. Bulletin of the New York Public Library by New York public library (1921)
"IAE (chronicles) Shields, George O. The Blanket Indian of the Northwest. ... IAE (chronicles) Thompson, Holland. The age of invention; a chronicle of ..."

5. The Political History of England by William Hunt, Reginald Lane Poole (1906)
"Contemporary Histories and chronicles.—The most important is POLYDORE VERGIL'S Historia Anglica, the twenty-sixth book of which prolix work is devoted to ..."

6. An apology for the Bible, in a series of letters addressed to T. Paine by Richard Watson (1808)
"... is taken from chronicles; and therefore the book of Genesis was written after the book of chronicles : secondly, the book of chronicles was not begun lo ..."

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