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Word definitions for chronicle in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Chronicle \Chron"i*cle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Chronicled ; p. pr. & vb. n. Chronicling .] To record in a history or chronicle; to record; to register. --Shak.

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Chronicle was a BBC Television series shown monthly and then fortnightly on BBC Two from 18 June 1966 to its last broadcast in May 1991. Chronicle focused on popular archaeology and related subjects.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1400, croniclen , from chronicle (n.). Related: Chronicled ; chronicling .

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
v. record in chronological order; make a historical record

Usage examples of chronicle.

Were Adams to be elected, warned the Boston Chronicle, the principle of hereditary succession would be imposed on America, to make way for John Quincy.

Now at last Hresh took the velvet pouch from the casket of the chronicles for the first time, and held it cupped in both his hands.

Chronicle Year 1112, in the Cathran capital city that was called simply Cala in the days preceding the Sovereignty.

As thus it is given me to guard by my lord Ah Naum Pech, I wish to compose carefully the history and chronicle of the district of Chac Xulub Chen here, my first command, the town having two districts, Chichinica and, here, Chac Xulub Chen.

Saddam Husayn in the mid-1970s, Iraqi history was a chronicle of conspiracies, coups, countercoups, and fierce Kurdish uprisings.

Set on stormy Cape Breton Island off Nova Scotia, Fall on Your Knees is an internationally acclaimed multigenerational saga that chronicles the lives of four unforgettable sisters.

Had I halted at Fenouillet, as they would have had me do, it is odds that this chronicle would never have been penned, for likely enough I had had my throat cut as I slept.

Structurally, the political career undertaken by Isky Harappa transforms the novel from family chronicle to political satire and darkens its black comedy to the point of apocalypse.

One quite obvious thing was that it had been composed very soon after the events described, probably within the same year, and that its account of the campaign was substantially historical, for it squared most exactly with the account in the Kievan Chronicle, without there being any trace of verbal coincidence between the two documents.

The older Indian sites, they theorized, were more likely to show evidence of the migration of the followers of Lehi--the ancestors of the Lamanites and the Nephites--to the New World hundreds of years before the birth of Christ, as chronicled in the Book of Mormon.

Holmes for tracking an orangoutan through the sewers of Marseilles must join the number of tantalizing references the doctor makes to other cases he never saw fit to chronicle.

But as Lilea put it, there was a singlemindedness about her that frightened a lot of her teachers--an unshakable conviction that she and only she knew exactly what the Chronicles meant, exactly what Idair wanted, and exactly what her duty to shri was, and that anyone who had a differing view was misguided at best.

As Antonia tucked the volume back onto its proper shelf, straightening the corners, wiping a smidgeon of dust from the corner of the book placed next to it, she wondered if she would be able to salvage this chronicle from the chaos sure to follow.

It is so famous a one that songsmiths have already worked it into the Chronicles.

There was in a flint-built house in the village of Erl an ancient Chronicle, a volume bound in leather, and in it at certain seasons folk wrote all manner of things, the wisdom of farmers concerning the time to sow, the wisdom of hunters concerning the tracking of stags, and the wisdom of prophets that told of the way of Earth.