单词 | horary |
释义 | horaryn. rare. ΘΚΠ society > faith > artefacts > book (general) > breviary or office book > [noun] houra1250 journal1355 diurnal?a1550 breviary1611 horary1631 office-book1709 horologium1724 brevial1847 horae1875 hour-book1896 1631 P. Heylyn Hist. St. George i. v. 93 So was it in our Ladies Horarie, or horarium, according to the use of Sarum. 1789 C. Burney Gen. Hist. Music III. 9 This year [sc. 1549] all..breviaries, offices, horaries..were called in, and destroyed. 2. a. An hourly account or narrative. (Cf. diary n.) ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > narration > [noun] > a narrative or account > particular types of quadrilogue1596 thanatography1839 horary1864 metanarration1973 1864 Sat. Rev. 31 Dec. 817/1 Todleben tells us that Canrobert deployed on the heights by two o'clock; Kinglake, that Bosquet..crossed by the ford..at 2·10; and so on through the horary of the battle. b. A timed programme or plan. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > timetable or schedule timesc1410 time bill1810 train indicator1849 time sheet1850 horary1851 timetable1856 schedule1863 horarium1921 sked1929 time frame1946 timeline1948 1851 J. B. Pagani Life A. Gentili iii. ii. 151 He drew up a regular horary to promote recollection and compunction. 1922 Westm. Gaz. 7 Oct. His scheme of breaking the Germans in 24 hours on a meticulously timed ‘horary’. Derivatives hoˈrarium n. ΘΚΠ the world > time > reckoning of time > calendar > [noun] > timetable or schedule timesc1410 time bill1810 train indicator1849 time sheet1850 horary1851 timetable1856 schedule1863 horarium1921 sked1929 time frame1946 timeline1948 1921 Ampleforth Jrnl. Jan. 139 Adapting ourselves to the School horarium we began dinner at 5 p.m. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online June 2021). horaryadj. 1. Of, relating to, or indicating the hours. horary angle = hour-angle n. horary circle: see circle n. 2, 13a; also, the circle of hours on a dial-plate. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > hour > [adjective] horary1664 horal1717 the world > time > instruments for measuring time > clock > [noun] > part(s) of > dial or markings on dial tablea1400 dial1440 watch1588 punctilio1596 dial platea1652 recliner1652 dial piece1658 face1659 horary circle1664 night dial1670 horizontal dial1674 hour-stroke1674 hour-plate1690 clock face1764 niche1822 1664 H. Power Exper. Philos. Concl. 193 Understood no more of Nature, than a rude Countrey-fellow does of the Internal Fabrick of a Watch, that onely sees the Index and Horary Circle. 1688 R. Boyle Disquis. Final Causes i. 19 Furnished with a stile, with horary lines and numbers, and..all the requisites of a sun dial. 1768 Philos. Trans. 1767 (Royal Soc.) 57 390 The horary spaces, or angular distances of the hours on the dial. 1798 tr. J. F. G. de la Pérouse Voy. round World III. 332 M. de Langle himself took the distances and horary angles. 1814 J. Playfair Outl. Nat. Philos. II. i. i. 13 The angle which the meridian of a star makes with the meridian of the place of observation, is called the star's Horary Angle. 1853 Christian Remembrancer Jan. 71 The general horary arrangement of time. 2. Occurring every hour, hourly. ΘΚΠ the world > time > period > hour > [adjective] > occurring every specific number of hours hourly?c1530 horary1632 semi-diurnal1794 bi-hourly1844 1632 B. Jonson Magn. Lady i. vi Horary shifts Of shirts and waste-coats. 1641 J. Jackson True Evangelical Temper ii. 152 A dayly, horary, momently breaking of that great Evangelicall precept. 1796 C. Hutton Math. & Philos. Dict. (at cited word) The Horary motion of the earth on her axis is 15°. 1881 Nature No. 620. 480 The horary average [of meteors] increased rapidly between the evening and morning hours. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > [adjective] > early ripening hasty1338 untimely1535 hasting1578 horary1620 hastive1724 the world > time > duration > shortness or brevity in time > swift movement of time > [adjective] slidinga900 scrithingOE henwardOE swifta1225 short livya1325 passing1340 flittingc1374 shadowy1374 temporalc1384 speedfula1400 transitory?c1400 brittlea1425 unabidingc1430 frail?c1450 indurablec1450 scrithel?c1475 caduke1483 transitorious1492 passanta1500 perishinga1500 caducea1513 fugitive?1518 caducal?1548 quick1548 delible1549 flittering1549 undurable?1555 shadowish1561 fleeting1563 vading1566 flightful1571 wanzing1571 transitive1575 slipping1581 diary1583 unlasting1585 never-lasting1588 flit1590 post-like1594 running1598 short-lived1598 short-winded1598 transient1599 unpermanent1607 flashy1609 of a day1612 passable1613 dureless1614 urgenta1616 waxena1616 decayable1617 horary1620 evanid1626 fugitable1628 short-dated1632 fugacious1635 ephemerala1639 impermanent1653 fungous1655 volatile1655 ephemerousa1660 unimmortal1667 timesome1674 while-being1674 of passage1680 journal1685 ephemeron1714 admovent1727 evanescent1728 meteorous1750 deciduous1763 preterient1786 ephemeridal1795 meteorica1802 meteor1803 ephemerean1804 ephemerid1804 evanescing1805 fleeted1810 fleet1812 unenduring1814 unremaining1817 unimmortalized1839 impersistent1849 flighty1850 uneternal1862 caducous1863 diurnal1866 horarious1866 brisk1879 evasive1881 picaresque1959 1620 T. Venner Via Recta vii. 114 These and such like horarie and quickly perishing fruites. 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 293 Melons, Cucumbers, and other Horary Fruits. 4. Astrology. horary question, a question, the answer to which is obtained by erecting a figure of the heavens for the moment at which it is propounded. Hence, Relating to such questions, as horary astrology, horary prediction. ΘΚΠ the world > the universe > astrology > judicial astrology > [noun] > horary astrology > question horary question1647 the world > the universe > astrology > judicial astrology > [noun] > horary astrology horary astrology1835 1647 M. Nedham Levellers Levell'd 9 To perswade the Lady Arnabella to come to me, to be resolv'd 'bout some horary question. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 201 Draw a Figure that shall tell you What you perhaps forget, befel you; By way of Horary inspection. 1790 E. Sibly Astrol. (1792) I. 107 Calculating nativities or resolving horary questions. 1819 J. Wilson Compl. Dict. Astrol. (at cited word) The figure for a horary question is erected in the same manner as for a nativity. 1835 ‘Zadkiel’ Lilly's Introd. Astrol. xxxv. 285 All these coincidences must be considered by the genuine searcher after truth as strong evidences of the truth of planetary influence, as evinced in horary astrology. 1911 ‘Sepharial’ Man. Occultism vi. 98 I am quite convinced from experience that there is much that is both fictitious and erroneous in Horary Astrology. 1951 M. E. Hone Mod. Text-bk. Astrol. xv. 272 The practice of Horary Astrology was very popular in the Middle Ages, and its best known exponent was William Lilly (1602–81). a1963 L. MacNeice Astrol. (1964) i. 19 Casting horoscopes to answer questions is called ‘horary’ astrology. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1631adj.1620 |
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