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horological

adjective

  1. pertaining to horology
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Wiktionary

adj

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

  1. Synonym of chronometric, of or related to horologia and horology.

    [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.