horometry

English

Etymology

Compare French horométrie. See horometer.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /həˈɹɒmətɹi/

Noun

horometry (usually uncountable, plural horometries)

1. The art or practice of measuring time by hours and subordinate divisions.
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the horometry of antiquity

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “horometry”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)