honorary

honorary is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.

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  1. 1.(Law) An honorary payment, usually in recognition of services for which it is not usual or not lawful to assign a fixed business price. Heumann.
  2. 2.Done as a sign or evidence of honor; as, honorary services. Macaulay.
  3. 3.Conferring honor, or intended merely to confer honor without emolument; as, an honorary degree. "Honorary arches." Addison.
  4. 4.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 (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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  • Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
  • Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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