horary

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/ˈhɔːɹəɹi/

adjective

Pertaining to an hour or hours.

UncommonScrabble 12

Meanings

adjectivehorary (not comparable)
  1. not comparablePertaining to an hour or hours.
  2. not comparableOccurring every hour; hourly.
  3. not comparableobsoleteHaving a duration of just an hour; short-lived.

    horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer

    1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  4. not comparableastrologyWhose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.

    But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.

    1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 276
    1 more example

    This aspect of astrology impinged on medicine too, since an horary question could be a request for diagnosis, in which case the doctor might answer it by inspecting not just the arrangement of the heavens but also a sample of the patient's urine, bearing in mind when it was passed or when it was brought to him.

    2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 295
nounhorary (plural horaries)

plural horaries

  1. rareecclesiasticalA book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
  2. A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
  3. A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

Synonyms & antonyms

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Origin

  1. Latinhōra“hour”
  2. Medieval Latinhōrārius
  3. Englishhorary

From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).

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Translations

Bulgarian часов, едночасов
  • часов (časov)Pertaining to an hour or hours
  • едночасов (ednočasov)Having a duration of just an hour
Hebrew שאילתא
  • שאילתא(astrology, of a question)
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