A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which specific letters, interpreted as numerals, stand for a particular date when rearranged. The word, meaning `time writing`, derives from the Greek words chronos (`time`) and gramma (`letter`). In the pure chronogram each word contains a numeral, the natural chronogram shows all numerals in the...
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inscription whose letters form a Roman numeral date
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• (n.) 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.- the capitals of which give, when added as numerals, the sum 1632. • (n.) The record or ins...
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(from the article `Islamic arts`) ...was also expected to use puns and to play with words of two or more meanings. He might write verses that could provide an intelligible meaning ...
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A phrase or sentence in which certain letters represent, cryptically, a date, epoch, or, in rare cases, a non-date number. For example, the chronogram 'My Day Is Closed In Immortality' commemorates the death of Queen Elizabeth the First of England: the capital letters can be rearranged to give MDCII...
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Chron'o·gram noun [ Greek ... time + ... writing, character: confer French
chronogramme .]
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 Ad...
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chronogram, chronogrammatic 1. A phrase, sentence, or inscription, in which certain letters (usually distinguished by size or otherwise from the rest) express by their numerical values a date or epoch. 2. An inscription, sentence, or phrase in which certain numeral letters, usually made especially conspicuous to express a particular date or epoch o...
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an inscription in which certain Roman numeral letters express a date or epoch on being added together by their values. · a record made by a chronograph.
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