different between hoary vs horary

English

Etymology

hoar +? -y.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /h??.?i/
• (US) IPA^(key): /h??.i/
• Rhymes: -??ri
• Homophone: whorey

Adjective

hoary (comparative hoarier, superlative hoariest)

1. White, whitish, or greyish-white.
2. White or grey with age.
3. (zoology) Of a pale silvery grey.
4. (botany) Covered with short, dense, greyish white hairs; canescent.
5. (obsolete) Remote in time past.
6. (obsolete) Moldy; mossy; musty.
7. Old or old-fashioned; trite.

Synonyms

• (whitish, greyish-white): albescent, griseous, whity
• (white or grey with age): grey-haired, grizzled, grizzly, silver-haired, silvery-haired, white-haired; see also Thesaurus:elderly
• (old): aged, ancient, olden; see also Thesaurus:old
• (botany: covered with greyish-white hairs): canescent
• (remote in time past): bygone, foregone; see also Thesaurus:past

Derived terms

• hoarily
• hoariness

Related terms

• hoar

Translations

Anagrams

• Yahor

English

Etymology

From Medieval Latin h?r?rius, from h?ra (“hour”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?????i/

Adjective

horary (not comparable)

1. Pertaining to an hour or hours.
2. Occurring every hour; hourly.
3. (obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
4. (astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
   • 1971, Keith Thomas, Religion and the Decline of Magic, Folio Society 2012, p. 276:

     But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.

   • 2006, Philip Ball, The Devil's Doctor, Arrow 2007, p. 295:

     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.

Translations

Noun

horary (plural horaries)

1. (rare, ecclesiastical) A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
2. A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
3. A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

References

• John A. Simpson and Edward S. C. Weiner, editors (1989) , “horary”, in The Oxford English Dictionary, 2nd edition, Oxford: Clarendon Press, ?ISBN