chronicle (kronikl)

[Early mod. E. also cronicle, record of occurrences in their order of time. So fynden the i in here Scriptures and in here Cronycles. Mandeville, Travels, p. 53. Irish chronicles which are most fabulous and forged. Spenser, State of Ireland. I dare swear he never saw a book except the Chronicle chain'd in his Father's Hall. Mrs. Cent livre, Stolen Heire , ii. 2. Figuratively, anything that records, contains, conveys, or suggests history. Europe was rich in the accumulated treasures of age. Her very ruins told the history of times gone by, and every moldering stone was a chronicle . Irving , Sketch-Book, p. 15. Also chronic on . =Syn. 1. History , Chronicle, Annals , etc. (see history ); register, record, diary, journal, narrative, story. chronicle (kron'i-kl), v . t .; pret. and pp. chron icled , ppr. chronicling . [ croniclen , icle : see chronicle, n.] To record in a chronicle; narrate; register as history. To suckle fools, and chronicle small beer. Shak., Othello, ii. 1. In seeking to interpret the past history of the earth as chronicled in the rocks, we must use the present economy of nature as our guide. Geikie , Geol. Sketches, ii. 27. =Syn. Register , etc. See record, v.