noctidial
English
Etymology
From Latin nox, noctis (“night”) + dies (“day”).
Adjective
noctidial (not comparable)
- (rare, possibly obsolete) Comprising a night and a day.
- A noctidial period on Earth is 24 hours long.
- 1694, William Holder, A discourse concerning Time, with application of the natural day, and lunar month, and solar year, as natural, page 98:
- The Noctidial Day, the Lunar Periodic Month, and the Solar Year are Natural and Universal; but Incommensurate each to other, and difficult to be reconciled: Yet we are constrained to make use of them, as Measures […]
- 1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:
- […] I extended my peragration of the occident in an austrine direction. After the profection of a noctidial period, I espied an ample concourse […]
- 1884, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, page 102:
- Farewell to noctidial sittings, / Snatched naps, and occasional "nips"! / Good-bye to swift-bolted bun-lunches, / To tasks which I did not expect, […]
References
- “noctidial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.