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adjective

Honorary adj.

Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services.

Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches."

Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.

noun

Honorary, Honorarium n.

A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars.

(Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price.

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Etymology of 'Honorary'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Honorary" Quotes from Famous Books

... sciences, and to confer on the winner some public mark of distinction in respect to his taste and learning. The reward, however, was not in this case to be of a pecuniary nature, for the principle of the society was that rewards of merit were in the finer arts to be honorary, but in the more useful arts, where the merit was of a less elevated character, they were to be lucrative. On the same principle, in the arts the highest place was allowed to be due to genius, and therefore a reward for a discovery or invention ...

— Life of Adam Smith • John Rae

... Winsome had seen that every part of her farm machinery was going upon well-oiled wheels. She had consulted her honorary factor, who, though a middle-aged man and a bachelor of long and honourable standing, enrolled himself openly and avowedly in the army of Winsome's admirers. He used to ask every day what additions had been made ...

— The Lilac Sunbonnet • S.R. Crockett

... League of Resistance, so did the Adair Street Society, its secret daughter, of which Admiral Donald (O'Hara) had now been elected Honorary Vice-Master, and whose Roll contained the names of an extraordinary number ...

— The Lord of the Sea • M. P. Shiel

... known in the Gulch as the Reverend Elias B. Hopkins, but it was generally understood that the title was an honorary one, extorted by his many eminent qualities, and not borne out by any legal claim which he could adduce. "The Parson" was another of his sobriquets, which was sufficiently distinctive in a land where the flock was scattered ...

— The Captain of the Pole-Star and Other Tales • Arthur Conan Doyle

... Byron desired, Pope's school had kept the supremacy and a sort of honorary empire in the past, Byron would have been the first and only poet in his particular style; the height of Pope's wall shuts out Shakespeare's great figure from sight, whereas when Shakespeare reigns and rules in all his greatness, Byron ...

— Literary and Philosophical Essays • Various

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