horary
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 12
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
/ˈhɔːɹəɹi/
Definition of horary
7 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included
adj
- (not-comparable)Pertaining to an hour or hours.
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adj
- (not-comparable)Pertaining to an hour or hours.
- (not-comparable)Occurring every hour; hourly.
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(not-comparable, obsolete)Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
“horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer”
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(not-comparable)Whose 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.”
“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.”
noun
- (rare)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.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).
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