horologeとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈhɔɹəˌloʊd͡ʒ/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈhɒrəlɒd͡ʒ/

名詞

horologe (plural horologes)

1. (archaic or historical) Synonym of sundial or clock, a device or mechanism used to tell the hour of the day.
   • c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iii]:

     He'll watch the horologe a double set, If drink rock not his cradle.

   • 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “ch. II, Gospel of Mammonism”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book III (The Modern Worker):

     A SOUL is not like wind (spiritus, or breath) contained within a capsule; the ALMIGHTY MAKER is not like a Clockmaker that once, in old immemorial ages, having made his Horologe of a Universe, sits ever since and sees it go! Not at all. Hence comes Atheism; come, as we say, many other isms […]

   • 2007, John North, God's Clockmaker, page 167:

     The custodian of the horologe at Ely (1291) was paid 3s. annually for looking after something, which cannot have been a trifling object, for many labourers would gladly have done a month's hard work for that sum.

派生語

参照

• “horologe”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.