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anachronize en · VERB

Pronunciation

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• /əˈnækɹənaɪz/

Etymology

From anachronism + -ize. From New Latin anachronismus, from Ancient Greek ἀναχρονισμός (anakhronismós), from ἀναχρονίζομαι (anakhronízomai, “referring to the wrong time”), from ἀνά (aná, “up against”) + χρονίζω (khronízō, “spending time”), from χρόνος (khrónos, “time”).

Meanings

1. To refer to, or put into, a wrong time period.
   • 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. 1873, James Russell Lowell, “Shakespeare Once More”, in Among My Books, Boston: James R. Osgood and Company, page 198:

Forms

Relateds

anachronistic · anachronism

Translations (3)

pt anacronizar (to refer to, or put into, a wrong time) · pl anachronizować (to refer to, or put into, a wrong time) · pl zanachronizować (to refer to, or put into, a wrong time)