Meaning of quotidian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
   archaic, historical
2. A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
   historical
3. Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
   usually, with-definite-article

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Examples

“If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.”

“I myself was, about two years since, strangely cured of a violent quotidian, which all the wonted method of physick had not so much abated, by applying to my wrists a mixture of two handfuls of bay-salt, two handfuls of the freshest English hops, and a quarter of a pound of blue currants […]”

“More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.”

“She does the same thing as any parent worth their salt, and gets rambunctious youngsters engaged in daily drudgeries by refashioning the quotidian as adventure.”

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