Horary

Quick meaning: Horary is an adjective meaning Pertaining to an hour or hours.

Meaning

Pertaining to an hour or hours.

More Meanings

1. Occurring every hour; hourly.
2. (astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
3. A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
4. A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.
5. (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
6. (rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.

Example Sentences

horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer

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.

Word Forms

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