different between hourly vs horary

English

Etymology

hour +? -ly

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?a???li/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?a???li/

Adjective

hourly (not comparable)

1. Occurring every hour.
2. Unsalaried, paid by the hour; (by extension) blue-collar.

Derived terms

• bihourly, bi-hourly
• half-hourly
• semihourly, semi-hourly
• two-hourly

Translations

Adverb

hourly (not comparable)

1. At intervals of an hour.

   Express buses depart hourly.

Derived terms

• bihourly
• half-hourly
• semihourly, semi-hourly

Translations

Noun

hourly (plural hourlies)

1. Something produced each hour.

   She never reads her hourly report, but let her hourlies be fifteen minutes late and she raises a ruckus.

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