Definition of Chronographies

1. Noun. (plural of chronography) ¹

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Definition of Chronographies

1. chronography [n] - See also: chronography

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronographies

chronoclasms
chronofile
chronofiles
chronogeometric
chronogeometrical
chronogeometry
chronognosis
chronogram
chronogrammatist
chronogrammatists
chronograms
chronograph
chronographer
chronographers
chronographic
chronographies (current term)
chronographs
chronography
chronoisotherm
chronoisotherms
chronokinesis
chronologer
chronologers
chronologic
chronologic age
chronological
chronological age
chronological record
chronological sequence
chronological succession

Literary usage of Chronographies

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

1. Ordo Sæclorum: A Treatise on the Chronology of the Holy Scriptures: and the by Henry Browne (1844)
"And lastly, I shall shew that the chronographies of these Empires are constructed upon an artificial plan, adapted to a certain numerical measure. ..."

2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1901)
"... we must glance at the " chronographies " of Sextus Julius Africanus, who flourished in the early part of the third century and wrote his ..."

3. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1886)
"Examination of the Ancient Egyptian chronographies,' commenced in 1852 in Arnold s ' Theological Critic.' 3. ..."

4. The English Historical Review by Mandell Creighton, Justin Winsor, Samuel Rawson Gardiner, Reginald Lane Poole, John Goronwy Edwards (1893)
"... the Chronicles of Joshua the Stylite '' and Marcellinus, and the chronographies of John Maiala and Theophanes, with occasional help from Theodore the ..."

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