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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Honorarium \Hon`o*ra"ri*um\, Honorary \Hon"or*a*ry\, n. [L.
     honorarium (sc. donum), fr. honorarius. See {Honorary}, a.]
     1. A fee offered to professional men for their services; as,
        an honorarium of one thousand dollars. --S. Longfellow.
        [1913 Webster]
  


     2. (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.
        [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  honorarium
       n : a fee paid for a nominally free service
       [also: {honoraria} (pl)]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  55 Moby Thesaurus words for "honorarium":
     Trinkgeld, amends, atonement, blood money, bonus, bounty, bribe,
     compensation, consideration, damages, donative, double time,
     emolument, fee, gratuity, gravy, grease, guerdon, incentive pay,
     indemnification, indemnity, inducement, lagniappe, largess,
     liberality, meed, palm oil, pay, payment, perks, perquisite,
     pourboire, premium, price, quittance, recompense, redress,
     remuneration, reparation, requital, requitement, restitution,
     retribution, return, reward, salvage, salve, satisfaction,
     smart money, solatium, something extra, sportula, sweetener, tip,
     wergild
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  HONORARIUM. A recompense for services rendered. It is usually applied only 
  to the recompense given to persons whose business is connected with science; 
  as the fee paid to counsel. 
       2. It is said this honorarium is purely voluntary, and differs from a 
  fee, which may be recovered by action. 5 Serg. & Rawle, 412; 3 Bl. Com. 28; 
  1 Chit. Rep. 38; 2 Atk. 332; but see 2 Penna. R. 75; 4 Watts' R. 334. Vide 
  Dalloz, Dict. h.t., and Salary. See Counsellor at law. 
  
  

















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