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I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion.
Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 102:
The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.
2002, Russ McDonald, edited by McEachern, The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy, page 28:
Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.
2010, Steven Heller, Eddie S Glaude, Becoming a Graphic Designer:
Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.
2015, Alexander Stille, “The World’s Oldest Papyrus and What It Can Tell Us About the Great Pyramids”, in Smithsonian Magazine, volume October 2015, Smithsonian Institution:
They are finding the remains of ovens for smelting copper and preparing food as well as quotidian objects such as mats and storage pots.
(medicine) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms, etc).
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.
1671, Robnert Boyle, Usefulness of Experimental Natural Philosophy, Part II:
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 […]
(usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
2005 September 21, Lucy Mangan, “Has Lost lost the plot?”, in The Guardian:
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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