verb
- to arrange events or items in the order in which they occurred; to establish or determine the chronological sequence of
Usage: British spelling; American equivalent is 'chronologize'; transitive verb
Examples
- The historian worked to chronologise the ancient manuscripts based on their writing styles.
- We need to chronologise these historical events to understand the cause-and-effect relationships.
- The archivist chronologised the letters by examining their postmarks and content.
- Scholars have chronologised the reign of the pharaoh using archaeological evidence.
- The team chronologised the geological layers to determine the age of the fossils.