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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Tables for facilitating the determination of horary angles.
From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir
The barometer was a little lower than usual; but the progress of the horary variations or small atmospheric tides, was no way interrupted.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 1 by Ross, Thomasina
This fourth curve, which might be called the 'curve of no motion', or, rather, 'the line of no variation of horary declination', has not yet been discovered.
From COSMOS: A Sketch of the Physical Description of the Universe, Vol. 1 by Humboldt, Alexander von
On feeling the symptoms of this horary visitation, I regularly rushed into the streets, on the principle that some alleviation of misery is always to be found in fellow-suffering.
From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 337, October 25, 1828 by Various
A clear spot between the clouds enabled me to take the horary angles.
From Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 3 by Humboldt, Alexander von
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