Definitions for horologe

horologe hor·o·loge

Spelling: [hawr-uh-lohj, -loj, hor-]
IPA: /ˈhɔr əˌloʊdʒ, -ˌlɒdʒ, ˈhɒr-/

Horologe is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 12 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 100 anagrams from letters in horologe (eghlooor).

Definitions for horologe

noun

  1. any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.

Origin of horologe

1375-1425; late Middle English Latin hōrologium horologium; replacing Middle English orloge Middle French Latin, as above

Examples for horologe

Without the slightest premonitory symptoms of astrology, and being withal no horologe consulter, I yet do love the stars.

Do you hear the ticking of the horologe of time with each pulsation of your heart?

The horologe signifies the diligence with which the priests should say the canonical hours.

It was the primitive clock, the horologe of the first world.

On the other hand, other authorities state positively that that story is a myth and that Gerbert's horologe was a sun-dial.

The eyes of the little Doctor seemed rivetted on the horologe.

The cock, the horologe of Thorpe's light, crows no more to the answering hill-farms.

“The hour is close at hand, then,” said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as a full-grown orange.

"The hour is close at hand, then," said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as an orange.

horologe, (Orologe), (Horologium)A general term applied indiscriminately in old writings to any mechanism for measuring time.

Word Value for horologe
Scrable

12

Words with friends

13

Similar words for horologe
Word of the day