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chronistic

chronistic adjective: related to time or chronology, or to the presentation of events in a chronological fashion, or (especially) pertaining to the redactor of the Book of Chronicles.

Adjective (1)

chronistic

  1. Related to time or chronology, or to the presentation of events in a chronological fashion, or (especially) pertaining to the redactor of the Book of Chronicles.
    • Among the most important differences is the availability in some instances of what Sokal and Camin (1965) have called chronistic information, which refers to the times of events in phylogeny, such as times of cladogenesis, chronological sequences of populations, and geologic ranges of taxa....1970, Ellis Leon Yochelson, Proceedings of the North American Paleontological Convention, Field Museum of Natural History, Chicago, September 5-7, 1969
    • Alas, such a convention, typical to the heroic epic, was in fact diametrically opposed to the dry chronistic form of narration, one that is confined to presenting the events in their proper, historical sequence.1991, K. Lawson Younger, William W. Hallo, Bernard Frank Batto, The Biblical Canon in Comparative Perspective, Edwin Mellen Press

Adjective (2) capitalized: Chronistic

Chronistic

  1. Pertaining to the Chronicler or Chronist, the presumed redactor of the Book of Chronicles.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:Chronistic.

Origin of chronistic

From chronist + -ic?

Words formed from chronistic

Questions about chronistic

What does chronistic mean?
Chronistic means related to time or chronology, or to the presentation of events in a chronological fashion, or (especially) pertaining to the redactor of the Book of Chronicles.
What part of speech is chronistic?
Chronistic is an adjective.

Words near chronistic in the dictionary

  1. chroniques
  2. chroniques scandaleuses
  3. chronist
  4. Chronister
  5. Chronisters
  6. chronistic
  7. chronistically
  8. chronists
  9. chronnectome
  10. chronnectomes
  11. chrono-

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