horary
/ˈhɔːɹəɹi/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Pertaining to an hour or hours.
adj
Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
noun
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."
Etymology
From Medieval Latin hōrārius, from Latin hōra (“hour”).
Origin
- Source language: Latin
Word Breakdown
- Root: hōrārius, hōra