Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • An erroneous spelling of acronych, acronychal.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective See acronyc.

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  • adjective Timeless.
  • adjective astronomy Happening at sunset (of the rise or fall of a star; opposed to cosmic).

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Examples

  • The whole affair was quite achronic, as I may say.

    Questionable Shapes William Dean Howells 1878

  • There was a little bit more repeatitiveness than I like, but that's an artifact of the somewhat achronic nature of the story.

    Anime Nano! 2008

  • The thought-energy creates a space-distortion effect, and decreases the distance between this plane of space – time and those achronic entities whom we call Furies, whose business it is to harass and torment the wicked. "

    Orphans of Chaos 2005

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