Displaying a digital clock as well will help children see the relationship between an analog and a digital clock time system. The analemma offers a graphic display of one of the lessons a horologium can teach: the difference between clock time and sun time.
goodness gracious. Also,good gracious;gracious sakes. Exclamation of surprise, dismay, or alarm, as in Goodness gracious! You've forgotten your ticket. Both goodness and gracious originally alluded to the good (or grace) of God, but these colloquial expressions, which date from the 1700s, are not considered either vulgar or blasphemous.
1. a. Moral excellence and righteousness; goodness. b. An example or kind of moral excellence: the virtue of patience. 2. Archaic Chastity, especially in a woman. 3. A particularly efficacious, good, or beneficial quality; advantage: a plan with the virtue of being practical.irtue-the quality of doing what is right and avoiding what is wrong. moral excellence, virtuousness. good, goodness-moral excellence or admirableness; there is much good to be found in people.