horologe

[ hawr-uh-lohj, -loj, hor- ]

/ ˈhɔr əˌloʊdʒ, -ˌlɒdʒ, ˈhɒr- /

any instrument for indicating the time, especially a sundial or an early form of clock.

Origin of horologe

1375–1425; late Middle English < Latin hōrologium horologium; replacing Middle English orloge < Middle French < Latin, as above

Do you hear the ticking of the horologe of time with each pulsation of your heart?

Child of a Century, Complete |Alfred de Musset
Horologe, (Orologe), (Horologium)A general term applied indiscriminately in old writings to any mechanism for measuring time.

Time Telling through the Ages |Harry Chase Brearley
“The hour is close at hand, then,” said the master, consulting a horologe as large and as round as a full-grown orange.

The Watcher |J. Sheridan Le Fanu
It was the primitive clock, the horologe of the first world.

Old-Time Gardens |Alice Morse Earle

Without the slightest premonitory symptoms of astrology, and being withal no horologe consulter, I yet do love the stars.

The Knickerbocker, Vol. 57, No. 1, January 1861 |Various

horologe

/ (ˈhɒrəˌlɒdʒ) /

a rare word for timepiece

C14: from Latin hōrologium, from Greek hōrologion, from hōra hour + -logos from legein to tell