chronometrical

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Sometimes I wonder if an hour like that is real time; or is it, instead, a kind of chronometrical fairy, having no real existence on the dial, but only in essence.

From Friendship Village by Gale, Zona

This chronometrical conceit does by no means involve the justification of all the acts which wicked men may perform.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

To turn the left cheek if the right be smitten, is chronometrical; hence, no average son of man ever did such a thing.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

To give all that thou hast to the poor, this too is chronometrical; hence no average son of man ever did such a thing.

From Pierre; or The Ambiguities by Melville, Herman

The two Tommies obtained new chronometrical surnames, being known in the party as Tommy Came-first and Tommy Came-last.

From Three Expeditions into the Interior of Eastern Australia, Volume 2 by Mitchell, Thomas