clepsydra
IPA: kɫɛpsidrʌ
noun
- Synonym of water clock, especially (historical) ancient Greek and Roman forms.
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Examples of "clepsydra" in Sentences
- Extra tank for inflow clepsydra.
- A commonly used water clock was the simple outflow clepsydra.
- In Greece, a water clock was known as a clepsydra water thief .
- MN This instrument showed the time with more accuracy than the hourglass, the clepsydra or the water-clock.
- -- The clepsydra was a kind of water-clock; the other vessel is compared to it, because of the liquid in it.
- They were originally part of a rococco clepsydra, or water clock, that featured the twelve animals of the Chinese zodiac and was affixed to a pavilion inspired by Versailles.
- But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the clepsydra limiting his time, and the brief limiting his topics, and his adversary is standing over him and exacting his rights.
- Stationed beside the clepsydra was a special officer whose duty it was not only to fill it but to stop the flow whenever a speaker was interrupted, thereby making certain he was not cheated of any of the time due him. "
- Christie's carried a detailed introduction of the two bronzes on its website, saying that the two formed part of the zodiacal clepsydra that decorated the Calm Sea Pavilion in the Old Summer Palace of Emperor Qianlong 1736-1795.
- Do you imagine that there are any teachers in the world so clever as to be able to convince others of the truth about acts of robbery or violence, of which they were not eye - witnesses, while a little water is flowing in the clepsydra?
- "The clepsydra comprised the 12 animals of the Chinese zodiac each of which, in their turn, spouted water to mark the various hours of the day with the exception of midday, when this elaborate hydraulic mechanism triggered all of the animals simultaneously," Courteault said.
- But the lawyer is always in a hurry; there is the water of the clepsydra driving him on, and not allowing him to expatiate at will: and there is his adversary standing over him, enforcing his rights; the indictment, which in their phraseology is termed the affidavit, is recited at the time: and from this he must not deviate.
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