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Webster 1913 Edition
Horologe
Hor′o-loge
,Noun.
1.
A servant who called out the hours.
[Obs.]
2.
An instrument indicating the time of day; a timepiece of any kind; a watch, clock, or dial.
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Webster 1828 Edition
Horologe
HO'ROLOGE
,Noun.
An instrument that indicates the hour of the day. But chronometer is now generally used.
Definition 2024
horologe
horologe
English
Noun
horologe (plural horologes)
- (obsolete) A clock or watch.
- 1597: He'll watch the horologe a double set, If drink rock not his cradle. — Shakespeare, Othello, ii 3
- 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, book 3, ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism
- A SOUL is not like wind (spiritus, or breath) contained within a capsule; the ALMIGHTY MAKER is not like a Clockmaker that once, in old immemorial ages, having made his Horologe of a Universe, sits ever since and sees it go! Not at all. Hence comes Atheism; come, as we say, many other isms […]