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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

horological en · ADJ

Etymology

From horologic + -al. Equivalent to horo- + logical or horology + -ical.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.
    • [E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth. 1952, The American Temper, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 203:

Deriveds

horologically

Synonyms

chronometric · of or related to horologia and horology