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horologe|ˈhɒrəlɒdʒ|
Forms: α. 4 orlogge, 4–5 orloge, 4–6 orlege, 4–7 -lage, 5 -legge, -lyge, horlege, (6 orlache, horleige). β. 4 orologge, 4–5 oriloge, 5 oro-, oryloge, orrelegge, (horolage, 6 hora-, horyloge, horrelage), 5– horologe.
[a. OF. orloge, oriloge, mod.F. horloge (= It. orologio, Sp. reloj, Pg. relogio, Pr. reloge):—L. hōrologium, a. Gr. ὡρολόγιον instrument for telling the hour or time, dim. of ὡρολόγος hour-teller, f. ὥρα time + -λογος telling. The initial h in Fr. and Eng., and the medial o in Eng. are owing to later conformation to L.]
1. An instrument for telling the hour; a timepiece; a dial, hour-glass, or clock.
1382Wyclif Isa. xxxviii. 8 The shadewe of lynes bi the whiche it hadde go doun in the oriloge [1388 orologie] of Acath. c1386Chaucer Nun's Pr. T. 34 (Ellesm. MS.) Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge Than is a Clokke or an abbey Orlogge. 1413Pilgr. Sowle (Caxton 1483) v. xiv. 81 And by this tyme the Horologe had fully performed half his nyghtes cours. c1449Pecock Repr. i. xx. 118 Orologis, schewing the houris of the daie bi schadew maad bi the sunne in a cercle. 1481Caxton Myrr. iii. x. 152 By hym were founden first the oryloges of the chirches whiche begynne the houres of the dayes & of the nyghtes. a1535More 7th Pageant, Tyme (R.), I, whom thou seest with horyloge in hande, Am named Tyme. 15..Aberdeen Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) The tolbuith horrelage. 1627in J. Irving Hist. Dumbarton (1860) 478 The paynting and cullaring of the orlage. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. v. 142 This world indeed is a great horologe to itself, and is continually numbering out its own age. 1853G. Johnston Nat. Hist. E. Bord. I. 101 The flower affords a horologe of a primitive sort. 1884Tennyson Becket ii. ii, Always in suspense, like the tail of the horologe—to and fro—tick-tack.
b. transf. and fig. Applied to the cock, chanticleer; and in other applications. horologe of Flora, Flora's horologe (Horologium Floræ, Linnæus Philos. Bot. (1750) §335): see quot. 1789.
c1381Chaucer Parl. Foules 350 The kok, that orloge ys of thorpis lyte. 1513Douglas æneis i. Prol. 346 Thocht venerable Chaucer, principall poet but peir, Hevinlie trumpat, horleige [1553 orlege] and reguleir. 1604Drayton Moses ii. (L.), The cock, the country horologe, that rings The chearful warning to the sun's awake. 1659T. Pecke Parnassi Puerp. 88 The Countrey Horologe, first claps his wings; Before he News of grateful Day-light brings. 1691E. Taylor Behmen's Philos. 396 This Soul, the Horologe of Nature. 1789E. Darwin Bot. Garden 62 note, Many other flowers close and open their petals at certain hours of the day; and thus constitute, what Linneus calls the Horologe, or Watch of Flora. 1798C. Smith Young Philos. IV. 59 note, Notes on..the horologe of Flora, in the Oeconomy of Vegetation. 1817Southey Ess. (1832) II. 23 The hand of the political horologe cannot go back. 1837Sir F. Palgrave Merch. & Friar iv. (1844) 157 Make your government horologe go right. 1845Longfellow Old Clock on Stairs ix, The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this.
†2. Phrase. the devil in the horologe: the devil in the clock playing pranks with its works and making chaos of its time-keeping; a type of the confusion and disorder caused by a mischievous agent in any orderly system. Obs.
1519W. Horman Vulg. 232 b, Some for a tryfull pley the deuyll in the orlege. a1553Udall Royster D. iii. ii. (Arb.) 43 Cust. What will he? Me. Play the deuill in the horologe. 1562J. Heywood Prov. & Epigr. (1867) 149 The diuell is in thorologe, the houres to trye, Searche houres by the sunne, the deuyls dyall wyll lye. 1589R. Harvey Pl. Perc. (1590) 18 Martins clocke goes true, though the Diuell were in the Horologe.
3. attrib.
1483Cath. Angl. 188/2 An Horlege loker, horuspex. |