onerary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Latin onerarius, from onus, oneris (“load, burden”). Compare French onéraire. See onus, onerous.
Adjective
[edit]onerary (not comparable)
- Fitted for, or carrying, a burden.
- 1686, some translator, The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius:
- In the time of the Truce an hundred onerary Ships with Provisions, under a Convoy of twenty Men of War, came over out of Sardinia […]
References
[edit]- “onerary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.