an a card (anakard)

[F. anacarde, See Anacardium . N. E. D. An a card i aceæ (an-a-kär-di-a'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL., Same as anachronous . In our last General Convention... it happened once that a member, anachronic, moved a resolution having the old firebrand smell about it, the old clatter of the rack and chains. Morgan Dix, Am. Church Rev., XLII. 521. anachronically (an-a-kron'i-kal-i), adv. By anachronism; wrongly with respect to date. anachronism (an-ak ron-izm), n. [= F. ana chronisme, The famous anachronism [of Virgil] in making Æneas and Dido contemporaries. Dryden, Epic Poetry. Thus far we abjure, as monstrous moral anachronisms, the parodies and lampoons attributed to Homer. De Quincey, Homer, iii. But of what use is it to avoid a single anachronism, when the whole play is one anachronism , the sentiments and phrases of Versailles in the camp of Aulis? Macaulay, Moore's Byron. chronous.