chronologist
noun
a person versed in chronology.
chronologer
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a variation of
chronologist.
Example Sentences
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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
—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
John Milton, John Fox, author of the Martyrology, and John Speed, the chronologer, rest in this City churchyard.
From Birds of Prey by M. E. (Mary Elizabeth) Braddon
He has the choice of being a chronologer or a ballad-monger-obsolete and unimportant occupations.
From South Wind by Norman Douglas
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
