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What does Horae mean?

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Proper noun
  1. (Greek) The goddesses of the seasons and the natural portions of the times of the year, and the laws and orders of time; originally the personifications of nature in its different seasonal aspects, but in later times regarded as goddesses of order in general and of natural justice.
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He takes them from the same printed Horae of 1510 whence the memoria comes.
Hearne's text is taken from Horae printed by Wynkyn de Worde 1510, f. cli a, and is as follows.
There is thus, as in all editions, a great deal in the volume besides the Horae, from which the book takes its name.
The Horae, or Books of Hours, were the latest development of the service-books used at an earlier period.
This form appears peculiar to the neighbourhood of the Rhone, Horae Ferales.
There are more than two species of this curious genus, first published in the Horae Entomologicae.

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