onerary

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 […]

References

• “onerary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.