Crossword clues for honorary
honorary
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
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 arches.''
--Addison.Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.
Honorarium \Hon`o*ra"ri*um\, Honorary \Hon"or*a*ry\, n. [L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a.]
A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.
--S. Longfellow.(Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.
--Heumann.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 17c., from honor + -ary; possibly influenced by French honoraire, Latin honorarius "pertaining to honor, honorary."
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; a fee for services of no fixed value. 2 (cx US English) A kind of secret society that operates in name only, with membership given to honor some achievement.
WordNet
adj. given as an honor without the normal duties; "an honorary degree"
Wikipedia
An honorary position is given as an honor, with no duties attached, and without payment. Other uses include:
- Honorary Aryan, a status in Nazi Germany
- Honorary Academy Award, by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, United States
- Honorary authorship, listing of uninvolved people as co-authors of research papers
- Honorary César, awarded by the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinema, France
- Honorary consul, an unpaid part-time diplomatic consul
- Honorary Goya Award, by the Academia de las Artes y las Ciencias Cinematográficas de España, Spain
- Honorary Police, unpaid police force in Jersey
- Honorary Prelate, a title used in the Catholic Church
- Honorary society (disambiguation), whose members are elected for meritorious conduct
-
honorary title, awarded as a mark of distinction
- Honorary citizenship, awarded to aliens who have rendered service to the state
- Honorary degree, academic degree awarded to someone not formally qualified to receive it
- Honorary trust, a trust with neither a charitable purpose, nor a private beneficiary
- Honorary whites, a term that was used by the apartheid regime of South Africa
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.