This form of chronogram was one which he frequently used.
The Acrostic and theChronogram are both ingeniously described in the mock epic of the Scribleriad.
More than once, also, in Germany and Belgium a poem was written in a hundred hexameters, each yielding a chronogram of the date it was to celebrate.
The use of an abbreviation was necessary to prevent the addition of another letter I or M, which would have disturbed the formation of the chronogram desired.
In addition, each lemma, contained within asterisks, carries out the chronogram 1764, the year the clock was completed.
Webster defines a chronogram as an inscription, sentence, or phrase in which certain letters express a date or epoch.
Each of the nine parts of the inscription formed a chronogram which, in every instance, totals to the date 1764, the year in which the second clock was completed.
Borghesi used the larger size of uppercase letters to form the chronogram, and each chronogram was complete within a phrase or line.
A chronogram consists of a word or words in which the numerical letters indicate a date.
Michael and an address to Ferdinand; after which come one hundred hexameters, every one of which is a chronogram, and each chronogram gives the same result, viz.
I add another chronogram "by Godard, upon the birth of Louis XIV.
A chronogram is a sentence or inscription in which occur words, containing, as initial letters or otherwise, letters that represent the Roman numerals.
Queen Elizabeth died in the year 1603, and the following chronogram relating to that event has come down to us:-- "My Day Is Closed In Immortality.
These illustrations afford a fair insight into the construction and design of the Chronogram proper.
If not, I can only make Howell's chronogramequivalent to 1927.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chronogram" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
