Diurnals

They include graduals, antiphonals, diurnals, collectars, and psalters. 77 Some of these texts are decorated with elaborate pictorial elements and others are purely utilitarian. ❋ Unknown (2008)

However, many of the antiphonals belonging to male Dominican houses were broken up into two volumes for winter and summer usage. 106 Occasionally, houses had diurnals, manuscripts containing antiphonal materials for the daytime offices but excluding compline and matins. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The manuscript diversification of 1300 also saw the proliferation of special office books for processions and essential rituals. 109 Among the broader survey of manuscripts (Table 4), there are as many processionals as there are graduals, antiphons, and diurnals together, 21 out of 76 or 27.6 percent. 110 However, from the six core houses, these types of manuscripts represent only 14 percent of the total. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The _Lycoenidoe_ [1], a particularly attractive group, abound near the enclosures of cultivated grounds, and amongst the low shrubs edging the patenas, flitting from flower to flower, inspecting each in turn, and as if attracted by their beauty, in the full blaze of sun-light; and shunning exposure less sedulously than the other diurnals. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

The _Lycanidæ_ [1], a particularly attractive group, abound near the enclosures of cultivated grounds, and amongst the low shrubs edging the patenas, flitting from flower to flower, inspecting each in turn, as if attracted by their beauty, in the full blaze of sun-light; and shunning exposure less sedulously than the other diurnals. ❋ James Emerson Tennent (1836)

It was in every coffee-house, and in half the diurnals. ❋ Unknown (1822)

This is certainly one of the most evil and lying of the Republican diurnals.p. 378 _Hutchinson. ❋ Aphra Behn (1664)

But our people must have something in their diurnals; we must ever and anon be telling them our minds; or if we be at it when we raise taxes, like those gentlemen with the finger and the thumb, they will swear that we are cutpurses. ❋ James Harrington (1644)

As [oppose] to [Nocturnal] animals that are active at night some animals are Diurnal only becoming active [in the day]. ❋ NotKnownToYou (2009)

[I am] [diurnal] ❋ The Gadd (2011)

Person 1: Haha dude, your sleeping habits are so weird. I'm just [dayturnal]. Person 2: What the fuck is that? Person 1: It means [I sleep] in the night and am active during the day. I saw it on Urban Dictionary, it was the word of the day! Person 2: There's already a word for that fuckwit, it's called "[diurnal]." You can't just make up words that already exist. I guess Urban Dictionary is administrated by retards. ❋ Person McGuire (2011)

[Most people] are diurnal, although [some people] are like night-owls and are [nocturnal]. ❋ Alfajor (2011)

EXAMPLE: Sarah: Hi john. [Sarah's] BF John: hey sarah have any cool dreams lately? Sarahs thoughts: dont say anything about the dream you had last night about mary.... Sarah: nope John: oh okay. Sarah's thoughts: i knew i shouldn't have watched "[jennifers] body" last night... damn [megan fox] turning me into a Diurnal Bisexual.. ❋ Asian_waffles (2010)

Scholar 1: "[How goes] the research into Shakespeare's use of [Jungian] [allegory] in his tragedies?" Scholar 2: "Scatalogically Similar: Diurnal Discrepancy." Scholar 3: "Ah yes, indeed." (Cluemeter reading zero) ❋ Uncle Des (2010)

“I diurnaled at [Veterans Stadium] just so [that fuck] in the [Emmitt Smith] jersey had to wait.” ❋ John Koktosten (2019)