A ledger in which transactions have been recorded as they occurred

Usage examples of journal.

The entry of the adjournment of the house immediately after its meeting on the previous day, out of respect to the memory of the deceased statesman, was an honour which would live for ever in the journals of that house, and an honour which was never before paid to a subject.

Andrew had found her through an agency that advertised in medical journals.

I feel better for it, though I will have to make certain now that Alake never sees this journal.

I mean the Ancestral ones we attendants use as our handbook, training manual, journal, history, chronicle, what have you.

What a preposterous glut of paper and ink he has amassed, loose leaves and envelopes and journals with spines and notebooks sewn with string, all neatly filled with his blockish, inelegant handwriting, all annotated with symbols in his own private code, signifying such things as further study needed or but is this really true?

They would be recorded, in all probability, in the Avifauna Journal - a small publication of limited circulation which went to keen students of bird life.

Hanging from an obscure rack, the searcher discovered back numbers of the Avifauna Journal.

He did not wait for the Bailly to reply, but began to tell of the death of Lorenzo Dow, and, taking from his pocket the little black journal, opened it and read aloud the record written therein by the dead clergyman.

Journals, tapes, reels, codices, file boxes, bescribbled papers were piled on every table.

The journals of all colours, with only one or two exceptions, are filled with lies and bombast, and the people believe the one and admire the other.

Unfortunately, Michael Bowden had left his wife at home but had hidden all his journals, including the one for 1998.

According to Davyn, Narim had been poking around in it, and according to the journal map, it was somewhere in the mountains of the Carag Huim.

Davidson has reported a similar case, and there is a death from the same cause cited in the Edinburgh Medical and Surgical Journal for 1846.

Not until 1893, when a researcher and naturalist named Elliott Coues rediscovered their all but forgotten manuscripts mouldering in a cupboard at the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia and produced an annotated edition of their journals, were they at last accorded recognition as naturalists, cartographers and ethnologists.

I asked him how I could get the Journal de Savans, the Mercure de France, and other papers of the same description.