chronologist
noun
a person versed in chronology.
chronologer
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a variation of
chronologist.
Example Sentences
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He died there in the summer of 1627, and was succeeded as chronologer by Ben Jonson.
From A History of Elizabethan Literature by George Saintsbury
He has the choice of being a chronologer or a ballad-monger-obsolete and unimportant occupations.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
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
The task of the chronologer was thus simplified and reduced to a study and comparison of dates in a few leading systems.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
He is, perhaps, a braggadocio of minuteness, a swaggering chronologer, a man bristling up with small facts, prurient with dates, wantoning in obsolete evidence.
From Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 461 Volume 18, New Series, October 30, 1852 by William Chambers
