The Collaborative International Dictionary
Horary \Ho"ra*ry\, a. [LL. horarius, fr. L. hora hour: cf. F. horaire. See Hour.]
Of or pertaining to an hour; noting the hours.
--Spectator.-
Occurring once an hour; continuing an hour; hourly; ephemeral.
Horary, or soon decaying, fruits of summer.
--Sir T. Browne.Horary circles. See Circles.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Pertaining to an hour or hours. 2 Occurring every hour; hourly. 3 (context obsolete English) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived. 4 (context astrology of a question English) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked. n. 1 (context rare ecclesiastical English) 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.
WordNet
adj. relating to the hours; "the horary cycle"
Usage examples of "horary".
Demonstrate to your sense once more, And draw a figure, that shall tell you What you, perhaps, forget befel you, By way of horary inspection, 985 Which some account our worst erection.
As it was, she would have to cast an horary for him and trust that the auguries would be hopeful.
I went up on to the platform just as the second lieutenant was taking the measure of the horary angles, and waited, according to habit till the daily phrase was said.
With that to go on he can erect a preliminary, what he calls a horary figure of what took place, and govern his future actions from what he reads.
I have erected a horary figure of the assault Lamb made on his valet, after you telephoned me the hour of the call for his arrest.
Attached to the chimney-piece was a horary, sculptured in stone, near which hung a large star-fish.
This is the horary oscillations of the atmospheric pressure which, in some countries are so regular that the time of day may be ascertained by the height of the barometer.
These horary variations of the magnetic needle are as great at the bottom of deep mines far removed from solar influence, as on the surface.
The principal effect, however, of the horary variation of the needle is due to the radial stream of the sun, which not only penetrates the atmosphere, but also the solid crust of the earth.
He named stars of the wild goat, or Capricorn, those where the sun, having reached the highest point in his annuary tract, rests at the summit of the horary gnomon, and imitates the goat, who delights to climb the summit of the rocks.
The captain, who had already in the morning been able to calculate an horary angle, now prepared to take the meridian altitude, and succeeded at midday in making his observation most satisfactorily.