Sekirov Dictionary

quotidian

UK /kwə(ʊ)ˈtɪdɪən/US /kwoʊˈtɪdiən/

adjective 4
noun 3
forms 3

adjective4

Happening every day; daily.
•
Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
- The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred. — 1981
•
Something which is considered humdrum or dull.
- His life took on a quotidian humdrum. — 2004
•
Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
- Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration. — 1898

noun3

•
Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
- More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts. — 2005
(historical) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
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(no longer used, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
- If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him. — 1623

forms

quotidians · more quotidian · most quotidian

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