adjective
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relating to the hours
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hourly
Etymology
Origin of horary
1610–20; < Medieval Latin hōrārius, equivalent to hōr ( a ) hour + -ārius -ary
Example Sentences
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Attached to the chimney-piece was a horary, sculptured in stone, near which hung a large starfish.
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She has reduced the observations of ten thousand stars, and prepared a work of three hundred pages of horary tables—an immense work for her age and sex.
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In nativities, they seem to consider them as indices; but, in horary questions, as causes.
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It may, I believe, be explained in the circumstance that "ten" and "four," in horary reckoning, were convertible terms.
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This, he says, occurs along the equator, where the horary motion is at its maximum; and thus the tropic current is formed.
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