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▪ I. honorary, n. Now rare or Obs.|ˈɒnərərɪ|
[ad. L. honōrārium: see prec.]
= prec.; also, a gift; an honouring distinction.
1615Chapman Odyss. xiii. 15 An honorary given to age. 1650Trapp Comment. Numb. iii. 9 The ministers of the Gospell are called gifts, Eph. 4. 8. 11, honouraries, such as Christ bestowed upon his Church. 1776Adam Smith W.N. v. i. iii. (1869) II. 345 In some universities, the salary makes but..a small part of the emoluments of the teacher, of which the greater part arises from the honoraries or fees of his pupils. 1845Ld. Campbell Chancellors (1857) III. liv. 68 The usual amount of honoraries to counsel.
▪ II. honorary, a.|ˈɒnərərɪ|
Also 8–9 honourary.
[ad. L. honōrāri-us, f. honor honour: see -ary. In F. honoraire.]
1. Denoting or bringing honour; conferred or rendered in honour.
1614Selden Titles Hon. 22 Hee caused that Honorary title to bee scratcht out of the letters. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 287 The wonderful Works of the Creation should be brought as Honorary Presents. 1705Addison Italy (J.), Honorary arches erected to emperors. 1774J. Bryant Mythol. I. 319 It was an honorary term...It signified a lord or prince. 1841Elphinstone Hist. India II. 477 Without..receiving the honorary dress usual on such occasions. 1847Grote Greece ii. xxviii. (1862) III. 48 The simple crown of olive, an honorary reward.
2. spec. Conferred or rendered merely for the sake of honour, without the usual requirements, functions, privileges, or other adjuncts.
1661Bramhall Just Vind. ix. 258 Some few honorary priviledges..which signifie not much. 1732T. Lediard Sethos II. x. 409 The vivacity of this young prince..had already chang'd this honorary title into a real one. 1813J. Thomson Lect. Inflam. 27 The precise period at which the different universities in Europe first began to confer honorary titles or degrees is not well ascertained. 1897Westm. Gaz. 14 Dec. 6/2 The honorary colonelcy.
b. honorary monument, a cenotaph.
1658Sir T. Browne Hydriot. iii. 41 Beside their real Tombs, many have found honorary and empty Sepulchres. a1782W. Cole in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) I. 86 There is but one Monument..wch is only an Honorary one or Cenotaph. 1850P. Cunningham Handbk. Lond. 538/1 Honorary monument to Shakspeare. Note, The word honorary, as here used, is meant to imply that the person to whom the monument is erected is buried elsewhere.
3. Holding a title or position conferred as an honour, without emolument, or without the usual duties, obligations, privileges, etc.; titulary. Also, giving services (as secretary, treasurer, etc.) without emolument.
1705Hearne Collect. 17 Nov. (O.H.S.) I. 81 Agt Honorary Freemen having Right to vote. 1727–41Chambers Cycl. s.v., In the college of physicians, London, are honourary fellows. 1873Daily News 22 Sept. 3/1 The Emperor intends to appoint the King honorary colonel of the 13th Infantry Regiment. 1878R. B. Smith Carthage 21 The Suffetes had gradually become little more than an honorary magistracy.
4. Depending on honour; said of an obligation which one is bound by honour to discharge, but which cannot be formally or legally enforced.
1794Gouv. Morris in Sparks Life & Writ. (1832) II. 405 The United States will be under a kind of honorary obligation to discharge the debt. 1848Arnould Mar. Insur. i. iv. (1866) I. 152 Merely an honorary engagement, of which the Courts will take no notice.
5. Law. honorary feud, honorary service: see quots.
1670Blount Law Dict., Honorary Services..are such as are incident to the Tenure of Grand Serjeanty, and annexed commonly to some Honor or Grand Seigniory. 1767Blackstone Comm. II. xiv. 214 The emperors began to create honorary feuds or titles of nobility. 1809Tomlins Law Dict., Honourary..Feuds, are titles of nobility, descendible to the eldest son. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. (1866) I. 121 Those honorary services which are still, at a coronation, rendered to the person of the sovereign by some lords of manors. |