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anachronise

anachronise is the alternative form of anachronize.

Meaning of anachronize

Verb

anachronize (third-person singular simple present anachronizes, present participle anachronizing, simple past and past participle anachronized)

  1. To refer to, or put into, a wrong time period.
    • The only fair comparison would be between him and that one of his contemporaries who endeavored to anachronize himself, so to speak, and to subject his art, so far as might be, to the laws of classical composition.1873, James Russell Lowell, “Shakespeare Once More”, in Among My Books, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 198

Forms of anachronise

third-person singular presentanachronises
present participleanachronising
past participleanachronised
pastanachronised

Questions about anachronise

What is anachronise the alternative form of?
Anachronise is the alternative form of anachronize.

Words near anachronise in the dictionary

  1. anachorites
  2. anachronic
  3. anachronical
  4. anachronically
  5. anachronies
  6. anachronise
  7. anachronised
  8. anachronises
  9. anachronising
  10. anachronism
  11. anachronismatic

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