onerary

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English

Etymology

From Latin onerarius, from onus, oneris (load, burden). Compare French onéraire. See onus, onerous.

Adjective

onerary (not comparable)

  1. Fitted for, or carrying, a burden.
    • 1686, some translator, The Roman History Written in Latine by Titus Livius:
      In the time of the Truce an hundred onerary Ships with Provisions, under a Convoy of twenty Men of War, came over out of Sardinia []

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