单词 | horologe |
释义 | horologen. 1. a. An instrument for telling the hour; a timepiece; a dial, hourglass, or clock. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > [noun] > instrument or timepiece horologea1382 dial1410 horology1509 horologiuma1661 timekeeper1674 timepiece1708 time machine1870 digital1975 a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. xxxviii. 8 The shadewe of lynes bi the whiche it hadde go doun in the oriloge [a1425 orologie] of Acath. c1386 G. Chaucer Nun's Priest's Tale (Ellesm. MS.) 34 Wel sikerer was his crowyng in his logge Than is a Clokke or an abbey Orlogge. 1413 Pilgr. Sowle (1483) v. xiv. 81 And by this tyme the Horologe had fully performed half his nyghtes cours. c1449 R. Pecock Repressor (1860) 118 In Scripture mensioun is maad of orologis, schewing the houris of the daie bi schadew maad bi the sunne in a cercle. 1481 W. Caxton tr. Myrrour of Worlde iii. x. 152 By hym were founden first the oryloges of the chirches whiche begynne the houres of the dayes & of the nyghtes. a1535 T. More Tyme in Wks. (1557) I. sig. ¶iiiv I, whom thou seest with horyloge in hande, Am named tyme. 15.. Aberdeen Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) The tolbuith horrelage. 1627 in J. Irving Hist. Dumbarton (1860) 478 The paynting and cullaring of the orlage. a1652 J. Smith Select Disc. (1660) v. ii. 131 This World is indeed a great Horologe to it self, and is continually numbring out its own age. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 101 The flower affords a horologe of a primitive sort. 1884 Ld. Tennyson Becket ii. ii. 114 Always in suspense, like the tail of the horologe—to and fro—tick-tack. b. transferred and figurative. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > time > instruments for measuring time > signal marking the time > [noun] > cock crow > cock as timepiece horologec1381 the world > plants > by age or cycles > [noun] > time of opening or closing of petals or leaves vigil1783 horologe of Flora1789 c1381 G. Chaucer Parl. Foules 350 The kok, that orloge ys of thorpis lyte. 1513 G. Douglas in tr. Virgil Æneid i. Prol. 346 Thocht venerable Chaucer, principall poet but peir, Hevinlie trumpat, horleige [1553 orlege] and reguleir. 1604 M. Drayton Moyses ii. 52 The Cocke the Country horologe that rings, The cheerefull warning to the Sunnes awake. 1659 T. Pecke Parnassi Puerperium 88 The Countrey Horologe, first claps his wings; Before he News of grateful Day-light brings. 1691 E. Taylor J. Behmen's Theosophick Philos. 396 This Soul, the Horologe of Nature. 1789 E. Darwin Bot. Garden: Pt. II 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. 1798 C. Smith Young Philosopher IV. 59 (note) Notes on..the horologe of Flora, in the Oeconomy of Vegetation. 1832 R. Southey Ess. II. 23 The hand of the political horologe cannot go back. 1837 F. Palgrave Merchant & Friar (1844) iv. 157 Make your government horologe go right. 1845 H. W. Longfellow Old Clock on Stairs ix The horologe of Eternity Sayeth this. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > disorder > [noun] > disordering > one who or that which > in an orderly system the devil in the horologe1519 a screw loose1810 1519 W. Horman Vulgaria 232 b Some for a tryfull pley the deuyll in the orlege. 1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. iv. sig. Giv Here is the deuill in thorologe, ye maie saie. a1556 N. Udall Ralph Roister Doister (?1566) iii. ii. sig. D.iijv What will he? M. Play the deuill in the horologe. 1590 R. Harvey Plaine Percevall sig. Dv Martins clocke goes true, though the Diuell were in the Horologe. 3. attributive. ΚΠ 1483 Cath. Angl. 188/2 An Horlege loker, horuspex. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1382 |
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