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Definition of Clocklike
1. a. Like a clock or like clockwork; mechanical.
Definition of Clocklike
1. Adjective. Resembling a clock or some aspect of one. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Clocklike
1. [adj]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Clocklike
Literary usage of Clocklike
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by LESLIE. STEPHEN, Sidney Lee (1890)
"... give his ' Confessio ' an historical interest which the frozen levels' of it
j with ' the clocklike tick of its rhymes' cannot destroy. ..."
2. The Library of Literary Criticism of English and American Authors by Charles Wells Moulton (1901)
"... give his "Confessio" an historical interest which the frozen levels' of its
verse with "the clocklike tick of its rhymes' ' cannot destroy. ..."
3. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, George Grove, John Morley, Mowbray Morris (1863)
"... and I have heard it loudly lauded: “It is so simple.; —a few exercises, and
those executed with the most clocklike regularity ;—no tours de force. ..."
4. The New York Times Current History (1917)
"The different stages of the battle of Verdun, characterized by the clocklike
co-operation of heaviest artillery fire and immediately following infantry ..."
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