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Quotidian   Listen
noun
Quotidian  n.  Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Quotidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... in other languages, is always followed by u, and has a sound which our Saxon ancestors well expressed by cw, as quadrant, queen, equestrian, quilt, inquiry, quire, quotidian. Qu is never ...
— A Grammar of the English Tongue • Samuel Johnson

... full of strange suspense; it was coloured throughout with that quality of strangeness which puts a new light on all quotidian occupations and exposes their fundamental unimportance. Edwin arose to the fact that a thick grey fog was wrapping the town. When he returned home to breakfast at nine the fog was certainly more opaque than it had been an hour ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett

... this; and observed, that his building so great a house at Inveraray was not like a narrow man. 'Sir,' said he, 'when a narrow man has resolved to build a house, he builds it like another man. But Archibald, Duke of Argyle, was narrow in his ordinary expences, in his quotidian expences.' ...
— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell



Words linked to "Quotidian" :   ordinary, everyday, workaday, unremarkable, routine



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