Word Meanings - ANTICHRONICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Deviating from the proper order of time. -- An`ti*chron"ic*al*ly, adv.

Related words: (words related to ANTICHRONICAL)

• CHRONICLE
  The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
• CHRONOGRAMMATIC; CHRONOGRAMMATICAL
  Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.
• CHRONOGRAPHY
  A description or record of past time; history. Bp. Hall.
• CHRONOMETRY
  The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• CHRONIC
  1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
• CHRONOLOGIST; CHRONOLOGER
  A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• CHRONOGRAPHER
  One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.
• PROPERATE
  To hasten, or press forward.
• CHRONOPHER
  An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.
• ORDERLY
  1. Conformed to order; in order; regular; as, an orderly course or plan. Milton. 2. Observant of order, authority, or rule; hence, obedient; quiet; peaceable; not unruly; as, orderly children; an orderly community. 3. Performed in good
• PROPERTIED
  Possessing property; holding real estate, or other investments of money. "The propertied and satisfied classes." M. Arnold.
• CHRONOMETER
  A metronome. Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t. (more info) 1. An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper. 2. A portable timekeeper, with
• PROPERISPOME
  Properispomenon.
• CHRONOGRAM
  1. An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.
• CHRONOGRAPH
  1. An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity. 2. Same as Chronogram, 1. 3. A chronoscope.
• DEVIATORY
  Tending to deviate; devious; as, deviatory motion. Tully.
• ORDERLINESS
  The state or quality of being orderly.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• ANACHRONISM
  A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• SYNCHRONOUS
  Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- Syn"chro*nous*ly, adv.
• MISORDER
  To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. Shak.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• EUCHRONE
  A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.
• ACCORDER
  One who accords, assents, or concedes.
• PARACHRONISM
  An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence.
• ACHRONIC
  See ACRONYC
• IMPROPERTY
  Impropriety.
• SYNCHRONAL
  Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous. Dr. H. More.
• TAUTOCHRONE
  A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal