horologe
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of horologe
1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin hōrologium horologium; replacing Middle English orloge < Middle French < Latin, as above
Example Sentences
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"The hour is close at hand, then," said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as an orange.
From J. S. Le Fanu's Ghostly Tales, Volume 1 by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan
It might be amusing, were it not melancholy, to refer to one of his proofs of this position: "Une horologe mesure le temps; certes, c'est là un effet intellectuel produit par une cause physique!"
From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James
By the light of the stained-glass windows the famous astronomical clock in the south transept can be descried, still containing some fragments of the horologe constructed by the mathematician Conrad Dasypodius in 1574.
From Hero Tales and Legends of the Rhine by Spence, Lewis
With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.
From A Celtic Psaltery by Graves, Alfred Perceval
On May 10, 1774, "with a sound absolutely like thunder," has the horologe of time struck, and an old era passed away.
From The World's Greatest Books — Volume 12 — Modern History by Hammerton, John Alexander, Sir
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