noctidialとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

noctidial (not comparable)

1. (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,  […]

参照

• “noctidial”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• dictional, dilatonic