Quotidian

Word QUOTIDIAN
Character 9
Hyphenation quo tid i an
Pronunciations /kwəˈtɪdɪən/

Definitions and meanings of "Quotidian"

What do we mean by quotidian?

Everyday; commonplace. adjective

Recurring daily. Used especially of attacks of malaria. adjective

Daily; occurring or returning daily: as, a quotidian fever.

Something that returns or is expected every day; specifically, in medicine, a fever whose paroxysms return every day. noun

A cleric or church officer who does daily duty. noun

Payment given for such duty. noun

Occurring or returning daily. adjective

Anything returning daily; especially (Med.), an intermittent fever or ague which returns every day. noun

Found in the ordinary course of events adjective

A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.

A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.

(usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.

Everyday; commonplace; Recurring daily (other than you, I think I'm the only person who knows of this word) Urban Dictionary

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The word "quotidian" in example sentences

English landscape, Austen offers a sort of test case that asks how the sensibility endorsed by the eighteenth-century novel fares in quotidian England. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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 ❋ Boswell, James, 1740-1795 (1887)

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 ❋ James Boswell (1767)

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. ❋ Unknown (2006)

I never heard the word quotidian in this sense, and I imagined it to be a word of Dr Johnson’s own fabrication; but ❋ Unknown (2006)

These (sung, but not high, Masses), are the Masses that are called quotidianæ in the Missal. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

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. ❋ LYNN CROSBIE (2011)

The quotidian is the daily, the ordinary existence, the "what happens anyway". ❋ Neath (2010)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Patrick J. Smith (2007)

Yet Kazin tells us that "The 'quotidian' never got into the Cantos; perhaps there was no actual life around him for Pound to report." ❋ Reck, Michael (1986)

Steven Erlanger wrote a perceptive piece on Muslim-Jewish relations in Paris '19th Arrondisement in today's NYT, which contains much of the kind of quotidian testimony one must take into account when discussing Europe's "New Anti-Semitism." ❋ Noah K (2008)

September 16, 2006 at 02: 32 PM katinka, that first thing you turned in of your novel was * dead*. and yes, i was unimpressed. i didn't think anything could be done with it. but then you came in with a completely different idea about how to do that novel and it was really, really * alive* and i was sooo impressed. i've told my students that anecdote to impress upon them how impossible it is to tell if someone is a "good writer" just by reading a few rough drafts they've turned into a workshop. i hope you're still working on that novel. plus, the word was "quotidian". another favorite word of mine. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Nor does Chardin's painting prepare us, as viewers, for the later and more radical ensembles of quotidian culinary objects, caught close up and unsparingly, for which he became well known. ❋ Mary Tompkins Lewis (2011)

Taken between 1969 and 1975, the photographs deepen the artistic possibilities of the quotidian. ❋ Unknown (2012)

This emphasis on the importance of the quotidian, in all its minute detail, became Tolstoy's trademark. ❋ Gary Saul Morson (2011)

But here are materials that even the untrained museum visitor can tell come from a grab bag of European, African and Asian sources, teeming with the detail of ordinary, anonymous, quotidian life. ❋ Unknown (2011)

“There's nothing quite like a real... [train conductor] to add color to a quotidian commute” -- [Anita] [Diamant] ❋ Informed Nigga (2004)

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