horologe

noun

1. (archaic, historical)Synonym of sundial or clock, a device or mechanism used to tell the hour of the day.

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

   “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 […]”

   “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.”