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horary

/ˈhɔːɹəɹi/

horary adjective: pertaining to an hour or hours.

Adjective

horary (not comparable)

  1. Pertaining to an hour or hours.
  2. Occurring every hour; hourly.
  3. (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
    • horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
  4. 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.1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society, published 2012, page 276
    • 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...2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 295

Noun

horary (plural horaries)

  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.

horary meaning in Tamil and Bengali

horary in Tamil

மணிக்கு மணி நிகழ்கிற, மணி, நாழிகை காட்டும், மணி சம்பந்தமான, மணிக்குரிய

horary in Bengali

ঘণ্টা, কয়েক ঘণ্টার সাথে সম্পর্কিত, প্রতি ঘণ্টায় ঘটা, ঘণ্টায় ঘণ্টায়, মাত্র এক ঘণ্টা স্থায়ী, স্বল্পস্থায়ী

Forms of horary

pluralhoraries

Origin of horary

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

Words formed from horary

Questions about horary

What does horary mean?
Horary means pertaining to an hour or hours.
What is horary in Tamil?
Horary in Tamil is மணிக்கு மணி நிகழ்கிற, மணி, நாழிகை காட்டும். See Horary meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is horary?
Horary can be an adjective or a noun.
How do you pronounce horary?
Horary is pronounced /ˈhɔːɹəɹi/.

Words near horary in the dictionary

  1. Horans
  2. Horapollonian
  3. horaries
  4. horarium
  5. horariums
  6. horary
  7. horary astrology
  8. horas
  9. Horatian
  10. Horatio
  11. Horatio Algerian

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Adapted from Wiktionary: horary (page history and authors); horary (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); horary (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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