Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The description or investigation of past events, with reference to the time of their occurrence; chronology.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A description or record of past time; history.
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- noun A description or record of past time;
history .
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Examples
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Despite the difficulties in using Theophanes, whose chronography is often brave but flawed, the Chronicle is a constant point of reference for much work in late antique or early Byzantine history if only because of its compass alone.
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Christian letters were continued in Greek by such men as Eusebius of Caesarea (260340), who among other things established the tradition of Christian chronography, and by the theologian Gregory of Nazianzus (32989).
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I shall not refer now to the applications of these instruments in chronography, but will rather point out first the applications in which they are destined to produce an effective power.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 365, December 30, 1882 Various
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Julius Africanus lived at Emmaus and composed a chronography, out of which the episcopal lists of Rome, Alexandria, and Antioch, and a great deal of other matter, have been preserved for us in St. Jerome's version of the Chronicle of Eusebius, and in
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Parts of his chronography, perhaps his last work, have survived.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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Julius Africanus is the father of Christian chronography.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
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[422] Note in passing that this marks the beginning in general of the universal chronography of history, and consequently of the general Christian outlook upon the entire course of human history.
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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In his chronography the apologetic interest is subordinate to the historical, and in his [Greek: Kestoi], dedicated to Alexander Severus (Hippolytus had already dedicated a treatise on the resurrection to the wife of Heliogabalus), we see fewer traces of the Christian than of the Greek scholar.
History of Dogma, Volume 2 (of 7) Adolph Harnack 1890
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