Word Meanings - AMBUSHMENT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An ambush. 2 Chron. xiii. 13.

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• CHRONICLE
  The two canonical books of the Old Testament in which immediately follow 2 Kings. Syn. - Register; record; annals. See History. (more info) 1. An historical register or account of facts or events disposed in the order of time. 2. A narrative of
• CHRONOGRAMMATIC; CHRONOGRAMMATICAL
  Belonging to a chronogram, or containing one.
• CHRONOGRAPHY
  A description or record of past time; history. Bp. Hall.
• CHRONOMETRY
  The art of measuring time; the measuring of time by periods or divisions.
• CHRONIC
  1. Relating to time; according to time. 2. Continuing for a long time; lingering; habitual. Chronic disease, one which is inveterate, of long continuance, or progresses slowly, in distinction from an acute disease, which speedly terminates.
• AMBUSHER
  One lying in ambush.
• CHRONOLOGIST; CHRONOLOGER
  A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology. That learned noise and dust of the chronologist is wholly to be avoided. Locke. THe most exact chronologers tell us that Christ was born in October, and not in
• CHRONOGRAPHER
  One who writes a chronography; a chronologer. Tooke.
• CHRONOPHER
  An instrument signaling the correct time to distant points by electricity.
• CHRONOMETER
  A metronome. Box chronometer. See under Box. -- Pocket chronometer, a chronometer in the form of a large watch. -- To rate a chronometer. See Rate, v. t. (more info) 1. An instrument for measuring time; a timekeeper. 2. A portable timekeeper, with
• AMBUSHMENT
  An ambush. 2 Chron. xiii. 13.
• CHRONOGRAM
  1. An inscription in which certain numeral letters, made to appear specially conspicuous, on being added together, express a particular date or epoch, as in the motto of a medal struck by Gustavus Adolphus in 1632: ChrIstVs DVX; ergo trIVMphVs.
• CHRONOGRAPH
  1. An instrument for measuring or recording intervals of time, upon a revolving drum or strip of paper moved by clockwork. The action of the stylus or pen is controlled by electricity. 2. Same as Chronogram, 1. 3. A chronoscope.
• AMBUSH
  1. A disposition or arrangement of troops for attacking an enemy unexpectedly from a concealed station. Hence: Unseen peril; a device to entrap; a snare. Heaven, whose high walls fear no assault or siege Or ambush from the deep. Milton.
• CHRONOLOGY
  The science which treats of measuring time by regular divisions or periods, and which assigns to events or transactions their proper dates. If history without chronology is dark and confused, chronology without history is dry and insipid. A. Holmes.
• CHRONOSCOPE
  An instrument for measuring minute intervals of time; used in determining the velocity of projectiles, the duration of short-lived luminous phenomena, etc.
• CHRONOLOGIC; CHRONOLOGICAL
  Relating to chronology; containing an account of events in the order of time; according to the order of time; as, chronological tables. Raleigh. -- Chron`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.
• CHRONOLOGER
  See CHRONOLOGIST
• CHRONOGRAPHIC
  Of or pertaining to a chronograph.
• CHRONOPHOTOGRAPH
  One of a set of photographs of a moving object, taken for the purpose of recording and exhibiting successive phases of the motion. --Chron`o*pho*tog"ra*phy, n.
• ANACHRONISM
  A misplacing or error in the order of time; an error in chronology by which events are misplaced in regard to each other, esp. one by which an event is placed too early; falsification of chronological relation.
• SYNCHRONOUS
  Happening at the same time; simultaneous. -- Syn"chro*nous*ly, adv.
• ELECTRO-CHRONOGRAPH
  An instrument for obtaining an accurate record of the time at which any observed phenomenon occurs, or of its duration. It has an electro-magnetic register connected with a clock. See Chronograph.
• EUCHRONE
  A substance obtained from euchroic acid. See Eychroic.
• PARACHRONISM
  An error in chronology, by which the date of an event is set later than the time of its occurrence.
• ACHRONIC
  See ACRONYC
• SYNCHRONAL
  Happening at, or belonging to, the same time; synchronous; simultaneous. Dr. H. More.
• TAUTOCHRONE
  A curved line, such that a heavy body, descending along it by the action of gravity, will always arrive at the lowest point in the same time, wherever in the curve it may begin to fall; as, an inverted cycloid with its base horizontal
• SYNCHRONOLOGY
  Contemporaneous chronology.
• PANTOCHRONOMETER
  An instrument combining a compass, sundial, and universal time dial. Brande & C.
• SYNCHRONIZATION
  The act of synchronizing; concurrence of events in respect to time.