Horological
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology. not-comparable
"[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."
Example
More examples"[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."
Etymology
From horologic + -al. Equivalent to horo- + logical or horology + -ical.
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