Definitions for Horae

Horae Ho·rae

Spelling: [hawr-ee, hohr-ee]
IPA: /ˈhɔr i, ˈhoʊr i/

Horae is a 5 letter English word.

You can make 60 anagrams from letters in Horae (aehor).

Definitions for Horae

plural noun

  1. goddesses of the seasons, of cyclical death and rebirth, and sometimes of social order, usually given as three in number, with the names Dike (Justice), Eunomia (Order), and Irene (Peace).

Origin of Horae

From the Latin word Hōrae literally, hours

Examples for Horae

Hearne's text is taken from Horae printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1510, f. cli a, and is as follows.

Horae (Ho′rae) were the daughters of Sol and Chronis, the goddesses of the seasons.

Horae quidem cedunt et dies et menses et anni, nec praeteritum tempus umquam revertitur nec quid sequatur sciri potest.

The Horae, or Books of Hours, were the latest development of the service-books used at an earlier period.

This form appears peculiar to the neighbourhood of the Rhone, Horae Ferales.

A Horae of May 8, 1492, substitutes floral borders for these little pictures.

There are more than two species of this curious genus, first published in the Horae Entomologicae.

They were used again, with some additions, in a Horae completed 20 October, 1531.

These, with the exception of the last, which is not quite so common, occur in most Horae.

There is thus, as in all editions, a great deal in the volume besides the Horae, from which the book takes its name.

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