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‖ horologium|hɒrəʊˈlɒdʒɪəm, -ˈləʊdʒɪəm|
Also (in sense 3) -on.
[L. hōrologium, Gr. ὡρολόγιον: see horologe.]
1. = horologe 1; a dial, clock, or chronometer.
horologium Floræ: see horologe 1 b.
a1661Fuller Worthies ii. (1662) 72 He presented King Henry the 8. with a Horologium..observing the shadow of the sun. 1846Ellis Elgin Marb. I. 29 The horologium, or water clock. 1866Treas. Bot., Horologium Floræ, a time-paper of flowers; a table explaining the time at which the same flowers expand in different latitudes.
2. Astrol. One of the southern constellations.
1819Pantologia, Horologium,..a new southern constellation. 1838Penny Cycl. XII. 297/1 Horologium, the Clock, a southern constellation of Lacaille. It is cut by a line passing through Canopus to the southern part of Eridanus.
3. Gr. Ch. A book containing the offices for the canonical hours; corresponding to a certain extent with the Western breviary.
1724Waterland Athan. Creed vi. 56 This Horologion belong'd to a monk of Constantinople. 1727–41Chambers Cycl., Horologium, Horologion, is also a name the Greeks give to their liturgy, or breviary. 1875Smith's Dict. Chr. Antiq. I. 784 The contents of the Great Horologium, which is the fullest form. Ibid., The Horologion is often prefaced by the calendar of the Menology, which begins with September. |