Horoscope vs Horary - What's the difference?
horoscope | horary |
an astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information
the position of the planets and stars at the moment of someone's birth; a diagram of such positions
Pertaining to an hour or hours.
Occurring every hour; hourly.
(obsolete) Having a duration of just an hour; short-lived.
* Sir Thomas Browne
(astrology, of a question) Whose answer can be worked out by drawing up a horoscope of the exact time the question was asked.
* 1971 , , Religion and the Decline of Magic , Folio Society 2012, p. 276:
* 2006 , (Philip Ball), The Devil's Doctor , Arrow 2007, p. 295:
(rare, ecclesiastical) 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.
As nouns the difference between horoscope and horary
is that horoscope is an astrological forecast of a person's future based on such information while horary is a book containing the divine offices for the various canonical hours.As an adjective horary is
pertaining to an hour or hours.horoscope
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(wikipedia horoscope) (en noun)See also
* astrology * pseudosciencehorary
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(-)- (Spectator)
- horary , or soon decaying, fruits of summer
- But every kind of personal problem could be dealt with as an horary question.
- 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.