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noctidial

noctidial adjective: comprising a night and a day.

Adjective

noctidial (not comparable)

  1. (obsolete, possibly, rare) Comprising a night and a day.
    • A noctidial period on Earth is 24 hours long.
    • 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 […]1694, William Holder, A discourse concerning Time, with application of the natural day, and lunar month, and solar year, as natural, page 98

Examples of noctidial in a sentence

  • After the profection of a noctidial period, I espied an ample concourse […]1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32:
  • Farewell to noctidial sittings, / Snatched naps, and occasional "nips"! / Good-bye to swift-bolted bun-lunches, / To tasks which I did not expect, […]1884, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, page 102:

Origin of noctidial

From Latin nox, noctis (“night”) + dies (“day”).

Questions about noctidial

What does noctidial mean?
Noctidial means comprising a night and a day.
How do you use noctidial in a sentence?
After the profection of a noctidial period, I espied an ample concourse […]
What part of speech is noctidial?
Noctidial is an adjective.

Words near noctidial in the dictionary

  1. noctambulous
  2. Nocte
  3. Nocten
  4. nocticolid
  5. nocticolids
  6. noctidial
  7. noctidiurnal
  8. noctiferous
  9. noctiflorous
  10. noctilionid
  11. noctilionids

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