noctuaryとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

noctuary (複数形 noctuaries)

1. A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.
   • 1714 September 7, Joseph Addison; Richard Steele, “FRIDAY, August 27, 1714 [Julian calendar]”, in The Spectator, number 586, London: J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, OCLC 1026609121; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, Carefully Revised, in Six Volumes: With Prefaces Historical and Biographical, volume 6, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, 1853, OCLC 191120697:

     that ingenious gentleman, who promised me […] some extracts out of his noctuary

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