The dial of this horologe is divided into 24 hours; it shows the motion of the sun and moon, and bears upon its summit eight armed knights on horseback, tilting with lance in rest at one another, by a double rotatory motion.
The earliest horologe or hour measurer of which history makes mention is that called the Polos, and the Gnomon.
He founds his opinion upon a horologe described by Trithenius which was presented by the Sultan of Egypt in 1232, to the Emperor Frederic II.
The word horologe or hour-measurer of course equally applied to the sun-dial, the clepsydra, and the clock, and this convertibility of terms makes it all the more difficult to trace the point at which the newer invention began.
The Horologe which possibly next succeeded in date the invention of the Dial, was the Clepsydra or Water-Clock, the precise antiquity of which is however unknown.
I mind me of a certain engagement, Mr. Greig," he went on hurriedly, drawing a horologe from his fob and consulting it with a frowning brow.
Why, lad, shalt have an Easter egg for this--the best horologe in Versailles upon Monday morning.
The horologe of Time Strikes the half-century with a solemn chime, And summons us together once again, The joy of meeting not unmixed with pain.
With tears I took that cross of thorn, With tears that horologe forlorn.
Therewith she gave into my hands No hour-glass running golden sands, Only a horologe forlorn Set against a cross of thorn, And cold and stern the current seemed That through its clouded crystal gleamed.
Hence the Horologeor Watch of Flora is formed from numerous plants, of which the following are those most common in this country.
The English Legislature does not occupy itself with epochs; has, indeed, other business to do than looking at the Time-Horologe and hearing it tick!
In truth it had occupied some five minutes, as I discovered, holding my horologe to the moon, and had not occupied so long if it were not for my groping and pausing.
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.
On his return, in 1850, he and Howard established themselves in a small factory in Roxbury, under the name of the American Horologe Company.
Dennison and others organized the American Horologe Company for the manufacture of watches by machinery, and with the parts interchangeable—the American principle of today.
On the other hand, other authorities state positively that that story is a myth and that Gerbert's horologe was a sun-dial.
Linnaeus made a list of forty-six flowers which constituted what he termed the Horologeor Watch of Flora, and he gave what he called their exact hours of rising and setting.
It was the primitive clock, the horologeof the first world.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "horologe" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word. Other words: chronometer; clock; ticker; timekeeper; timepiece; timer; watch
