chronicular

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English

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Etymology

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From chronicle +‎ -ar.

Adjective

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chronicular (not comparable)

  1. (rare) Of or pertaining to chronicles.
    • 1938, George H. Jaffin, “Prologue to Nomostatistics”, in Readings in Jurisprudence, page 1159:
      Concededly, the chronicular technique covers a vast field and is quite suitable for studying the current of litigation en suite, notably in eras when litigation was less frequent a phenomenon — as, for example, in mediaeval England or colonial America.
    • 1990, Christian Bauer, “Language and Ethnicity: The Mon in Burma and Thailand”, in Ethnic Groups Across National Boundaries in Mainland Southeast Asia, page 36:
      Other types of publication include readers, reprints of traditional Mon texts, and chronicular texts, apart from religious treatises.
    • 2010, Lee Roy Beach, The Psychology of Narrative Thought, page 42:
      Some of your narratives are fiction, like your favorite daydreams; some are nonfiction, like your current narrative; one is autobiographical; some are biographies of other people; and so on. We will call these your chronicular narratives.