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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. Same as anachronous.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism; in a wrong time.
  2. adj. of a person having an opinion of the past; preferring things or values of the past; behind the times; over-conservative.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. adj. Erroneous in date; containing an anachronism.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. chronologically misplaced

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  • Adelberg In the famous English case "R v R 1991" the defendant was prosecuted for raping his estranged wife. Before this case husbands had immunity from the law on the basis that on marriage husband and wife became ‘one flesh’ and that by marriage a woman implied her consent to sexual intercourse throughout the time of marriage. The courts removed that immunity in 1991, calling it anachronistic, which is how I came to know this awesome word. Jan 6, 2012

  • seanahan It seems like a fairly poetic way to describe a generally ugly word. May 15, 2009

  • bilby Good point. May 13, 2009

  • vanishedone This WeirdNet definition makes me think of time travel: "We're not lost in the past... we're merely chronologically misplaced." May 12, 2009

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