What is "horologe"

Usage examples of "horologe".

A Requiem for Homo Sapiens by Horthy Hosthoh, Timekeeper and Lord Horologe of the Order of Mystic Mathematicians and Other Seekers of the Ineffable Flame There Is infinite hope, but not for Man.

A master horologe, whose duty it was to determine the intime of returning pilots according to complicated formulae weighting Einsteinian time distortions against the unpredictable deformations of the manifold, had told me that Soli had aged one hundred and three years this last journey and would have died but for the skills of the Lord Cetic.

It was good to enter the warm tower, good, even, to stand impatiently in an anteroom below the top of the tower as I stamped my boots on the red carpet and waited for the master horologe to announce my arrival.

And the horologe told me that it was the twenty-eighth day of midwinter spring in the year 2930.

I had heard other gossip: a drunken horologe who claimed the Timekeeper kept a double to attend to the affairs of the Order while he took to the streets at night, hunting like a lone wolf down the glissades for anyone so foolish as to plot against him.

Finally, he sent a journeyman horologe to inform me that he was meeting with a merchant prince from Tria and would not be able to see anyone for a good tenday.

Lord Kolenya with her moon fate, and Lord Nikolos, the Lord Akashic and the Lord Cetic-all the lords except the Lord Horologe were there.

Yes, solitude, until a hundred or a thousand years have passed and he returns to become the Lord Horologe once again.

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

One of them, a young horologe from Lara Sig, told Danlo that it was time to hike back to the City.

There was a red-faced master horologe, impatient and severe in his red robes, a haikuist who had the haggard, disoriented look of someone who had recently experienced too much computer simulation, and three high novices fresh from a game of hokkee in the Ice Dome.

Flame tongues licked the panicked face of an autist near Danlo, and passed to a horologe, whose red robe was suddenly a shroud of fire burning around him.

Some duke, out of gratitude for a forgotten favor, had paid for a clock tower to be built at the Citadel of Wizards, complete with a handsome horologe to which most mages paid scant attention.

We passed and bowed to the eschatologists, cetics, akashics, horologes, the professionals and academicians of our Order.

Our conversation was cut short when ten red-robed horologes marched out onto the dais and took their places by the Timekeeper, five to either side.