horary

Meanings

Adjective

• Pertaining to an hour or hours.
• Occurring every hour; hourly.
• Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
• Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.

Noun

• A book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.
• A narrative or account that is kept hourly.
• A plan or programme that gives the hours at which events are to take place; a timetable; a horarium.

Origin

• From Medieval Latin horarius, from hora.