quotidian

  1. Adjective.  (medicine) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms etc.). (defdate, from 14th c.) .
  2. Adjective.  Happening every day; daily. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  3. Adjective.  Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced etc. every day or very commonly; commonplace, ordinary; trivial, mundane. (defdate, from 15th c.) .
  4. Noun.  (medicine, now) A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria. (defdate, from 14th c.) .
  5. Noun.  (context, Anglicanism) A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy. (defdate, from 16th c.) .
  6. Noun.  (context, usually with definite article) Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class. (defdate, from 20th c.) .

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