noctuary
English
Etymology
From Latin noctu (“by night”). Compare diary.
Noun
noctuary (plural noctuaries)
- A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.
- 1714 September 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, August 27, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 586; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:
- that ingenious gentleman, who promised me […] some extracts out of his noctuary