chromulet, chromy let

[ nique; cf. Sp.crónico = Pg. chronico = It. cronico (= D. G. chronisch = Dan. Sw. kronisk ), Sw. krönika ), cronique , F. chro nique = Pr. cronica = Sp. crónica = Pg. chro nica It. cronica, relating to time. Cf. chronicle.] I. a. 1. Pertaining or relating to time; having reference to time. [Rare.] Specifically-2. Continuing a long time; inveterate or of long continuance, as a disease; hence, mild as to intensity and slow as to progre : in pathol., opposed to acute. sub-acute, intending to designate thereby cases which hold Some pathologists have invented a third epithet, viz., an equivocal rank, which are neither decidedly acute nor plainly chronic. The disturbance which warfare works, though slight compared with the chronic misery which it inflicted in earlier times, is now beginning to be regarded as unendurable. J. Fiske, Evolutionist, p. 209. Also, rarely, chronical. II. n. A chronicle. Watson, Lectures, viii. He in a chronique saufly mighte it write. Chaucer, Nun's Priest's Tale, 1. 387. The Cronike doth treteth this brefly, More ferther wold go, mater finde might I. Rom , of Partenay (E. E. T. S.), 1. 5718. The best chronique that can be now compiled. L. Add is on , Descrip. of West Barbary.