0 a person, thing, or idea that exists out of its time in history, especially one that happened or existed later than the period being shown, discussed, etc. -- 时代错误,年代误植,不合时代的人(或物)
During this period of transcription, perhaps certain anachronisms and historical inaccuracies may have crept into the text.
Most progressive composers must surely have regarded such string symphonies as heard here - all of which were composed between c1740 and c1755 - as an anachronism.
A slight, but nonetheless exasperating weakness lies in the glut of anachronisms peppering the prose of the book.
This sweeping chrononology does not mean excessive anachronism either.
Most, in fact, would reject it vigorously as an anachronism.
But even more powerful than the curtain - which is becoming almost an anachronism in the contemporary theatre - is the door.
In their fantastic anachronisms, these stories transfer the pure primitive state from the realm of anthropological conjecture to the stage of colonial adventure.
To discuss "secularization" and "professionalization" of science before the nineteenth century is, by general consensus, to flirt with anachronism.