routinary

English

Etymology

From routine +‎ -ary.

Adjective

routinary (comparative more routinary, superlative most routinary)

1. (now chiefly Philippines) Involving, or pertaining to, routine; customary.

   routinary visitation

   routinary jobs

   routinary activities

   • 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Works and Days”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 163–164:

     [H]e [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific.

References

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

Anagrams

• urinatory