Also 6 -ier. [f. CHRONOGRAPHY, or Gr. χρονογράφ-ος, F. chronographe + -ER.] A writer of chronography, a chronicler, chronologist.
1548. Hall, Chron. (1809), 55. Let men reade the Chronicles and peruse our English Chronographiers.
1550. Bale, Image Both Ch. (1560), B. Chronographers and historianes.
1577–87. Holinshed, Chron., III. 940/1. Iohn Fox our ecclesiasticall chronographer.
a. 1734. North, Lives, I. Pref. 15. [He] may be a chronographer, but a very imperfect or rather insipid historian.
1886. Q. Rev., April, 312. Westminster had long ago had her chronographer.
