There is surely nothing more incongruous or anachronic in the soliloquy of Tristram after his separation from Iseult than in the lecture of Theseus after the obsequies of Arcite.
"Poems & Ballads (First Series)"
Algernon Charles Swinburne
Better that it should not have consented to motion, and have held stubbornly to all ancestral ways, than have bred that anachronic spectre.
"The Complete Project Gutenberg Works of George Meredith"
George Meredith
The anachronic mixture in this Arruntius of the Roman republican, to whom Tiberius must have appeared as much a tyrant as Sejanus, with his James-and-Charles-the-First zeal for legitimacy of descent in this passage, is amusing.
"Literary Remains, Vol. 2"
Coleridge