Definition of Horologies

1. horology [n] - See also: horology

Lexicographical Neighbors of Horologies

horoball
horocycle
horocycles
horocyclic
horoeka
horography
horologe
horologer
horologers
horologes
horologic
horological
horologically
horologies (current term)
horologiographer
horologiographic
horologiography
horologion
horologist
horologists
horology
horometer
horometers
horometrical
horometries
horometry
horophile
horophiles

Literary usage of Horologies

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A Critical Dissertation on the Athanasian Creed: Its Original Language, Date by George Druce Wynne Ommanney (1897)
"The late Dr. Swainson regarded these horologies published at Venice as ... I have seen in the Bodleian Library horologies printed respectively in the years ..."

2. Original Letters Illustrative of English History: Including Numerous Royal by Henry Ellis (1846)
"... deviser of the Kings horologies, whiche shewed me howe the King had licenced hym to be absent for a season, and that he was redy to retorne in to ..."

3. Journal by Folk-Song Society (Great Britain) (1853)
"... Salop — Improvement* in apparatus for burning candles, and in horologies! apparatus, attached thereto. ..."

4. The Life and Letters of Sir Henry Wotton by Logan Pearsall Smith, Henry Wotton (1907)
"... for which purpose the great Tycho Brach composed divers horologies and hour-glasses, some running with simple water, some with distilled spirits, ..."

5. Drummond of Hawthornden: The Story of His Life and Writings by David Masson (1873)
"That great horologies of towns be reformed according to the small sun-dials." " That the books of Wallace and King Robert the Bruce be printed over again ..."

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