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Pertaining to an hour or hours. examples
Occurring every hour; hourly. examples
(obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived. quotations
horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer
1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […]
(astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked. quotations
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 brought to him.
2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow, published 2007, page 295
plural horaries
(rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
A narrative or account that is kept hourly. examples
A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium. examples