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






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Quotidian" Quotes from Famous Books



... Drachm of the Bark, mixed with a Grain of Opium, to be given every four Hours for six Times; and this removed both the Fever and Dysentery.—He says, he afterwards gave it, with equal Success, in the Quotidian Dysenteries, where he observed Exacerbations or Remissions; and he adds, that he does not doubt but that it will answer as well in Epidemical Diarrhoea's, and Camp Fevers attended ...
— An Account of the Diseases which were most frequent in the British military hospitals in Germany • Donald Monro

... day was full of strange suspense; it was coloured throughout with that quality of strangeness which puts a new light on all quotidian occupations and exposes their fundamental unimportance. Edwin arose to the fact that a thick grey fog was wrapping the town. When he returned home to breakfast at nine the fog was certainly more opaque than it had been an hour earlier. The steam-cars passed like phantoms, ...
— Clayhanger • Arnold Bennett



Words linked to "Quotidian" :   workaday, mundane, ordinary, routine



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