horological

English

Etymology

From horologic + -al. Equivalent to horo- +‎ logical or horology +‎ -ical.

Adjective

horological (not comparable)

  1. Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.
    • 1952, The American Temper, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, page 203:
      [E]ach of the transcendentalists went his own way [...] driven at last to some wayward retreat of his own - a library in a mossy house in Concard, a pitched tent along the Merrimack River, or even at sea , on the whale's road , where the white foam sprays and the horological soul dreams of its chronometrical truth.

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