orological

English

Etymology

Compare French orologique.

Adjective

orological (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, rare) Of or pertaining to orology.
    • 1781, The Monthly Review, volume 65, page 553:
      On leaving Switzerland, one of the most mountainous parts of the world, he sums up the general result of the orological observations he made there; which, backed and supported by Scheuchzer's map of Switzerland, led him to conclude, that the Helvetic mountains have no regular direction […]

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 orological in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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