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horary en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɔːɹəɹi/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (not-comparable) Pertaining to an hour or hours.
2. (not-comparable) Occurring every hour; hourly.
3. (not-comparable, obsolete) Having 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-comparable, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
   • 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:
   • 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:

Deriveds

horary astrology

Translations (3)

bg едночасов (Having a duration of just an hour) · bg часов (Pertaining to an hour or hours) · he שאילתא ((astrology, of a question))

horary en · NOUN

Pronunciation

• /ˈhɔːɹəɹi/

Etymology

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

Meanings

1. (rare) A 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.

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