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horologe
[ hawr-uh-lohj, -loj, hor- ]
noun
- any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.
horologe
/ ˈɒəˌɒ /
noun
- a rare word for timepiece
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of horologe1
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin ōDZDzܳ horologium; replacing Middle English orloge < Middle French < Latin, as above
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51Թ History and Origins
Origin of horologe1
C14: from Latin ōDZDzܳ, from Greek ōDZDzDz, from ō hour + -logos from legein to tell
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Looking at the horologe my lord had given me, I saw that it lacked yet two hours of the time when we should be aboard.
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For in their wickedness downright wicked men sin as much against their own horologes, as against the heavenly chronometer.
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One feels that the hands of the great horologe of time have hunted around the dial, till they have found the hour of doom for this primeval race.
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There was a time when the clock on the London Houses of Parliament was the last word in the art—a veritable triumph of the horologe.
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The eternal horologe is about to sound the first.
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