Crossword clues for quotidian
quotidian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Quotidian \Quo*tid"i*an\ (kw[-o]*t[i^]d"[i^]*an), n.
Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent
fever or ague which returns every day.
--Milton.
Quotidian \Quo*tid"i*an\ (kw[-o]*t[i^]d"[i^]*an), a. [OE. cotidian, L. quotidianus, fr. quotidie daily; quotus how many + dies day: cf. OF. cotidien, F. quotidien. See Quota, Deity.] Occurring or returning daily; as, a quotidian fever.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Wiktionary
a. 1 (context medicine English) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms etc.). (from 14th c.) 2 Happening every day; daily. (from 15th c.) 3 Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced etc. every day or very commonly; commonplace, ordinary; trivial, mundane. (from 15th c.) n. 1 (context medicine now rare historical English) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria. (from 14th c.) 2 (context Anglicanism historical English) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy. (from 16th c.) 3 (context usually with definite article English) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class. (from 20th c.)
WordNet
adj. found in the ordinary course of events; "a placid everyday scene"; "it was a routine day"; "there's nothing quite like a real...train conductor to add color to a quotidian commute"- Anita Diamant [syn: everyday, mundane, routine, unremarkable, workaday]
Usage examples of "quotidian".
The DeLillo universe is an ordinary world transfigured by extraordinary concerns, a quotidian place seen in the terrifying white light of eternity.
Dull, quotidian things took on color and value after hours inside the earth, particularly if there had been danger and physical victory.
You have learned to concentrate deeply, to think subtly, to have affection for abstractions, to live at a distance from quotidian things.
The effort required to control the instrument of a well-tuned garden is sufficient to repress quotidian worries and anxieties, but this anodyne property is not the principal goal of the gardener, who must be more devoted to creating a garden than to using it.
I do not defend the sitting down of servants and masters as a quotidian occurrence, but customs abate their rigidity on a journey.
A liberal intellectual working in the trenches of quotidian law enforcement.
She used to wonder how the routine rhythms and quotidian readjustments of her new life could hold any interest for PrincePrince, who came home hot and tousled from the hard human action.
There was nothing for black men to do, therefore, but turn inward, turn toward themselves, turn, if necessary, upon themselves, acting out in internecine battle the very hatred that had been forced upon them, that was played out with quotidian regularity in the pageantry of social myth.
No VE siren could ever replace the quotidian reality of her presence and the naive insouciance of her gesture.
Nam Chorios, the New Republic had financed a weather station to regulate the teeming rain that had been a quotidian event, and the Jedi Knights had negotiated an accord between the Drovians and the Gopsoto tribes.
Thereafter she armoured her mind, viewing the quotidian convoys with physical equilibrium intact.
Its chief characteristic--which is futility, not failure--could not be achieved but by the long abuse, the rotatory reproduction, the quotidian disgrace, of the utterances of Art, especially the utterance by words.
We expose our life to a quotidian ague of frigid impertinences, which would make a wise man tremble to think of.
Thank God for Chris, thank God for Natalie, for their inane high-school gossip, their naive willingness to lunge forward and expand on tiny particulars of the quotidian, Mr.
It might be that the fever was not quotidian, but tertian, and that it would return next day.