diurnal
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Diurnal preference also manifests as differences in normal sleep.
From Scientific American • Feb. 11, 2014
Hudibras is made happy at the idea that he may be Register’d by fame eternal, In deathless pages of Diurnal.
From Calamities and Quarrels of Authors by Disraeli, Isaac
By the Diurnal Motion of the Primum Mobile, ascend directly Above, and descend directly Below the Horizon.
From On the magnet, magnetick bodies also, and on the great magnet the earth a new physiology, demonstrated by many arguments & experiments by Gilbert, William
His poem called the Mixt Assembly; his character of a London Diurnal, and a Committee-man, are thought to contain the true spirit of satire, and a just representation of the general confusion of the times.
From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume II by Cibber, Theophilus
In 1647 there was "The Character of an Agitator," and also John Cleveland's Character of a London Diurnal.
From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various
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