horary
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).
Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]horary (not comparable)
- Pertaining to an hour or hours.
- Occurring every hour; hourly.
- (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
- 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:
- horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer
- (astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
- 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 276:
- But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.
- 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 295:
- 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.
Translations
[edit]Having a duration of just an hour
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Noun
[edit]horary (plural horaries)
- (rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
- A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
- A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.
References
[edit]- John A. Simpson and Edmund S. C. Weiner, editors (1989), “horary”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, →ISBN.
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