honoraries
plural of honorary
Source: Wiktionary
Hon`o*ra"ri*um, Hon"or*a*ry, n. Etym: [L. honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See Honorary, a.]
1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as, an honorarium of one thousand dollars. S. Longfellow.
2. (Law)
Definition: An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann.
Hon"or*a*ry, a. Etym: [L. honorarius, fr. honor honor: cf. F. honoraire.]
1. Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay.
2. Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison.
3. Holding a title or place without rendering service or receiving reward; as, an honorary member of a society.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 November 2024
(noun) the act of furnishing an equivalent person or thing in the place of another; “replacing the star will not be easy”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
