horula

horula , brief hour, moment; b (w. ad; cf. hora 5b). c (eccl.) canonical hour, office said at appointed time. hora ‥ inde hec ~a Osb. Glouc. Deriv. 273; si miser es, spera! veniet felicior annis / horula meta malis Hanv. VIII 148; latro in cruce ‥ in ~a [ME: in an start] leni verbo consecutus est misericordiam AncrR 129; Willelmus Rufus ‥ occiditur multa flagicia luens una ~a Fordun Chr. V 27; s1429 tot ‥ reportans ‥ laudes ‥ quot sunt puncta in linea, instantia in ~a, arenuleve in littore maris Amund. I 272; si abstitisset vecordia, tribus prope ~is favente vento pervassisses Bekynton I 103.  b cum prefato fratre ad ~am nuper per juvenilem imperspectionem modicum digresso, et per compunctionem ‥ reverso Ad. Marsh Ep. 195.  c Maria ‥ cujus ego ~as ‥ diebus singulis dicere solebam Alex. Cant. Mir. 52 p. 267.