Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To refer to an erroneous date or period; misplace chronologically.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To refer to, or put into, a wrong time.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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Examples
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The only fair comparison would be between him and that one of his contemporaries who endeavored to anachronize himself, so to speak, and to subject his art, so far as might be, to the laws of classical composition.
Among My Books First Series James Russell Lowell 1855
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“Won’t the Original Sam be upset if we anachronize?”
Jason Stoddard, Strange and Happy » Blog Archive » Eternal Franchise, 6.2 of 31.1 2009
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But as a cartoonist who likes the future remembered in the past, a historian of essentials not of time Haman lives—that’s my point, it pleases me to anachronize.
Kalooki Nights Howard Jacobson 2006
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