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honorary
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Word definitions for honorary in dictionaries
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
adj. given as an honor without the normal duties; "an honorary degree"
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Honorary \Hon"or*a*ry\, a. [L. honorarius, fr. honor honor: cf. F. honoraire.] Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. --Macaulay. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. ``Honorary ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
a. 1 Given as an honor/honour, with no duties attached, and without payment. 2 voluntary#English. 3 (non-gloss definition: Describes the holder of a position or title that is assigned to him as a special honor rather than by normal channels.) n. 1 An honorarium; ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 17c., from honor + -ary ; possibly influenced by French honoraire , Latin honorarius "pertaining to honor, honorary."
Usage examples of honorary.
By that trick, we ceased being two bipedal strangers and became a single honorary hadrosaur.
He was given an honorary degree of the university of Oxford in 1886, and in 1888 a statue of him was erected at Birmingham.
In short, these gentlemen gave me the most distinguished reception, and I had the fortune to make myself so agreeable to them that I was unanimously chosen an honorary member during the time I should stay at Amsterdam.
This might be so, but if Poland had possessed far-seeing statesmen they would have guessed that an honorary title would end in the usurpation of the whole country.
But for the past year, thanks to a fund- organized by the Society for Public Improvement, of which Juvenal Urbino was honorary president, there was a corps of professional firemen and a water truck with a siren and a bell and two high-pressure hoses.
Sir Walter Scott was an honorary member, as was Robert Louis Stephenson, and Captain Lawrie of Krakatoa fame.
Mona, we never needed a war leader, and it seemed quite in order to give Magg the honorary title.
Gulam Nohiuddin has resigned his Honorary Magistrateship, I hope that both these patriots will not consider that they have done their last duty by their acts of renunciation, but I hope they will regard their acts as a prelude to acts of greater purpose and greater energy and I hope they will take in hand the work of educating the electorate in their districts regarding boycott of councils.
Fox further objected, that the legislative councils were unlimited as to numbers by any other restriction than the pleasure of the king, to whom a power was reserved of annexing to certain honorary and titular distinctions an hereditary right of sitting in council.
Conditions and Situations discussed over and over and over and over and-- Of organizators and philanthrobbers and propheteers and directors and executive secretaries and executive directors and managing directors and the honorary chairmen and the sponsors and the trustees and the board of advisers and national headquarters and Chicago headquarters and local units and appeals to the press to give publicity to the unexampled needs of this great cause and you ought to be able to get this picture of Miss Viv de Vere, in bathing suit and holding a coin box, into the rotogravure sections and maybe get five minutes on Station WSOB and photographs and Dr.
Somewhat later, with some knowledge of his views, he was asked to hold an honorary relation to the Vivisection Reform Society.
He also made a little joke that the Burgomaster had caught up with his own rank and he thought he should now turn the tables upon him by becoming honorary Burgomaster.
And although I was an only child, I have a semblance of family life, through my cousin Eddie, the oldest son of my Aunt Hen and Uncle Moosh, who has always treated me as an honorary sib.
He arrays himself in court dress at the palaces of kings, receives honorary degrees at Universities, and is kept before the public by the newspaper paragraphist, without wincing or pretending to dislike it.
Her Royal Highness Bronwyn Amber-wine Magdalena Rowan, Crown Princess of Argonia, Prince Jacopo Worthyman, scion of a nomadic subculture and in indirect line for the throne of Ablemarle, and the Honorable Lady Carole Maud Songsmith Brown, daughter of Magdalene, Honorary Princess of Argonia, and the Earl of Wormroost.