Definition of Chronograms

1. Noun. (plural of chronogram) ¹

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Definition of Chronograms

1. chronogram [n] - See also: chronogram

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chronograms

chronobiologists
chronobiology
chronocidal
chronocide
chronoclasm
chronoclasms
chronofile
chronofiles
chronogeometric
chronogeometrical
chronogeometry
chronognosis
chronogram
chronogrammatist
chronogrammatists
chronograms (current term)
chronograph
chronographer
chronographers
chronographic
chronographies
chronographs
chronography
chronoisotherm
chronoisotherms
chronokinesis
chronologer
chronologers
chronologic
chronologic age

Literary usage of Chronograms

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Book-lore: A Magazine Devoted to Old Time Literature (1885)
"His monograph on chronograms appeared in 1882, and contained 5147 ... He has now issued chronograms Continued and Concluded (London : Elliot Stock), ..."

2. Handy-book of Literary Curiosities by William Shepard Walsh (1892)
"Mr. James Hilton, an enthusiastic Englishman, who has constituted himself the historian of chronograms in two bulky volumes issued respectively in 1882 and ..."

3. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1890)
"I venture to transcribe the whole of the chronograms contained in the " Part 5," pleading as my excuse for giving so much on one subject, the rarity of the ..."

4. A Oriental Biographical Dictionary: Founded on Materials Collected by the by Thomas William Beale, Henry George Keene (1881)
"... тегу will skilled in composing chronograms, and has left a thick Diwan of Ghazals, .... chronograms ..."

5. Chambers's Cyclopaedia of English Literature: A History Critical and by David Patrick, Robert Chambers (1902)
"... and congruity of ideas, false wit chiefly consists in the resem blance and congruity sometimes of single letters, as ID anagrams, chronograms, ..."

6. Milledulcia: A Thousand Pleasant Things. Selected from Notes and Queries by Robert Conger Pell (1857)
"chronograms. In the second paper by Addison on the different species of ... Perhaps the most extraordinary instance to be found in reference to chronograms, ..."

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