chronologist
noun
a person versed in chronology.
chronologer
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a variation of
chronologist.
Example Sentences
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He was frequently employed in composing pageants for the City of London, and in 1620 was appointed city chronologer.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
But every chronologer had failed to notice this coincident time of each as coincident.
From The Posthumous Works of Thomas De Quincey, Vol. 2 by Alexander H. (Alexander Hay) Japp
Authors," adds old Prince, "are perplexed under what topick to place him, whether of statesman, seaman, soldier, chymist, or chronologer; for in all these he did excel.
From A West Country Pilgrimage by Eden Phillpots
—Dramatist, was a Londoner and city chronologer, in which capacity he composed a chronicle of the city, now lost.
From A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature by John W. (John William) Cousin
Nothing is to be called a fault in poetry, says Aristotle, but what is against the art; therefore a man may be an admirable poet without being an exact chronologer.
From Discourses on Satire and on Epic Poetry by John Dryden
