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onerary

onerary adjective: fitted for, or carrying, a burden.

Adjective

onerary (not comparable)

  1. Fitted for, or carrying, a burden.
    • In the time of the Truce an hundred onerary Ships with Provisions, under a Convoy of twenty Men of War, came over out of Sardinia[…]1686, some translator, The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius

Origin of onerary

From Latin onerarius, from onus, oneris (“load, burden”). Compare French onéraire. See onus, onerous.

Questions about onerary

What does onerary mean?
Onerary means fitted for, or carrying, a burden.
What part of speech is onerary?
Onerary is an adjective.

Words near onerary in the dictionary

  1. onenesses
  2. Oneonta
  3. Oneota
  4. oner
  5. onera
  6. onerary
  7. onerate
  8. onerated
  9. onerates
  10. onerating
  11. oneration

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