different between horoscope vs horary

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French horoscope, from Medieval Latin horoscopus, from Ancient Greek ????????? (h?roskópos), from ??? (h?ra, “any limited time”) +? ?????? (skopós, “watcher”).

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?h?.??.sk??p/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?h?.???sko?p/
• Hyphenation: ho?ro?scope

Noun

horoscope (plural horoscopes)

1. The position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions.
2. An astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information.

Synonyms

• rashifal

Translations

See also

• astrology
• pseudoscience

French

Pronunciation

• ^{(mute h)} IPA^(key): /?.??s.k?p/

Noun

horoscope m (plural horoscopes)

1. horoscope (all senses)

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