quotidian
IPA: kwˈoʊtˈɪdiʌn
noun
- (medicine, now rare, historical) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
- (Anglicanism, historical) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
- (usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
adjective
- Happening every day; daily.
- Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
- (medicine) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
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Examples of "quotidian" in Sentences
- The quotidian is the daily, the ordinary existence, the "what happens anyway".
- These (sung, but not high, Masses), are the Masses that are called quotidianæ in the Missal.
- I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr Johnson’s own fabrication; but
- I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr. Johnson's own fabrication; but I have since found it in
- I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr Johnson's own fabrication; but I have since found it in Young's
- English landscape, Austen offers a sort of test case that asks how the sensibility endorsed by the eighteenth-century novel fares in quotidian England.
- It means "daily bread," but somehow "quotidian" seems right for Seinfeld, 52, a guy whose entire career is built on his bemused study of everyday life.
- The laid-back tone of the show is the same as ever: Big Hollywood events are sparsely interspersed with the monotony of the quotidian even if the quotidian is a high roller's.
- Under his expert hand, the Wiener Philharmoniker, apt to phone it in for something as "quotidian" as Mozart's 40th, shines and sparkles with the swank and swagger only it has.
- Austen’s heroines ask readers to choose between two versions of English identity: the familiar heroine of sensibility, who is comically out of place in quotidian England, or a pragmatic heroine of sense, who is capable of navigating the changing class structure of early nineteenth-century England.
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