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Definition of Chronographies
1. chronography [n] - See also: chronography
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronographies
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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