Dictionary

horologe en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɔɹəˌloʊd͡ʒ/ (General-American)
• /ˈhɒrəlɒd͡ʒ/ (Received-Pronunciation)

Etymology

From Middle English orloge, from Norman oriloge, from Old French orloge, from Latin hōrologium (“sundial”), from Ancient Greek ὡρολόγιον (hōrológion). Cognate with French horloge, Italian orologio, and Spanish reloj. Doublet of Horologium and horologium.

Meanings

1. (archaic, historical) Synonym of sundial or clock, a device or mechanism used to tell the hour of the day.
   • He'll watch the horologe a double set, If drink rock not his cradle. c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:
   • The custodian of the horologe at Ely (1291) was paid 3s. annually for looking after something, which cannot have been a trifling object, for many labourers would gladly have done a month's hard work for that sum. 2007, John North, God's Clockmaker, page 167:
   • 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 […] 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

Forms

Deriveds

horologer · horologion

Synonyms

sundial or clock