Meaning

Pertaining to an hour or hours..

Definitions by Sense

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

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

• horaries

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Use horary when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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