‖ 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.
| a 1661 Fuller Worthies ii. (1662) 72 He presented King Henry the 8. with a Horologium..observing the shadow of the sun. 1846 Ellis Elgin Marb. I. 29 The horologium, or water clock. 1866 Treas. 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.
| 1819 Pantologia, Horologium,..a new southern constellation. 1838 Penny 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.
| 1724 Waterland Athan. Creed vi. 56 This Horologion belong'd to a monk of Constantinople. 1727–41 Chambers Cycl., Horologium, Horologion, is also a name the Greeks give to their liturgy, or breviary. 1875 Smith'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. |