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▪ I. diary, n.|ˈdaɪərɪ|
[ad. L. diāri-um daily allowance, also (later) a journal, diary, f. die-s day: in form, a subst. use of the neuter of diārius adj. (see next), which, however, is not recorded in ancient L. See -arium, -ary1 B. 2.]
1. A daily record of events or transactions, a journal; specifically, a daily record of matters affecting the writer personally, or which come under his personal observation.
1581Wm. Fleetwood in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. II. 288 Thus most humbly I send unto yor good Lo. this last weeks Diarye. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. ii. ii. §11. 14 It is..an vse well received in enterprises memorable..to keepe Dyaries of that which passeth continually. 1642Answ. to Printed Bk. 14 A diary..of the Parliament held 1 Hen. 4. 1652–62Heylin Cosmogr. Introd. (1674) 17/2 A Diary or Journal, as the name imports, containing the Actions of each day. 1677Plot Oxfordsh. 228 Diaries of wind and weather, and of the various qualifications of the air. 1684Peter (title), A Relation or Diary of the Siege of Vienna. 1765T. Hutchinson Hist. Mass. I. ii. 213 Goffe kept a journal or diary. 1791–1823D'Israeli Cur. Lit., Diaries, We converse with the absent by letters, and with ourselves by diaries. 1803Med. Jrnl. X. 305 As I kept no diary during the prevalence of the influenza, I send what I can recollect. 1889Jessopp Coming of Friars iii. 130 In the thirteenth century men never kept diaries or journals..but monasteries did. Mod. The entries of a private diary.
attrib.1891Pall Mall G. 25 Apr. 2/3 The plaintiff gave peculiar diary accounts of about fifty meetings with the defendant.
2. A book prepared for keeping a daily record, or having spaces with printed dates for daily memoranda and jottings; also, applied to calendars containing daily memoranda on matters of importance to people generally, or to members of a particular profession, occupation, or pursuit.
A diary in this sense may vary in size from a folio volume, large enough to hold a detailed daily record in sense 1, to a small pocket-book with daily spaces only for the briefest notes, or merely with printed memoranda for daily reference.
1605B. Jonson Volpone iv. i, This is my diary, Wherin I note my actions of the day. 1642Howell For. Trav. (Arb.) 20 He must alwayes have a Diary about him..to set down what..his Eyes meetes with most remarquable. 1662J. Newton (title), A Perpetual Diary; or, Almanac. 1800W. Robson (title), The Persian Diary; or, Reflection's Oriental Gift of Daily Counsel. 1879Print. Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 7 The left hand pages form a perpetual poetical diary. Ibid. xxix. 6 The diary before us..is a stout quarto. 1883Whitaker's Alm. 456 The English Citizen's Diary..showing the days when certain Official Duties are to be performed; also the days when Inland Revenue Licences expire and must be renewed.
†3. Short for diary fever: see diary a. 1. Obs.
1639Horn & Rob. Gate Lang. Unl. xxiv. §310 A diary is of one daies continuance, and runs not beyond that time. 1657G. Starkey Helmont's Vind. 164 The disease at the first taking in hand was but a plain Diary. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 155 Hippocrates..thought that all Fevers, Diaries excepted, have their rise from choler.
▪ II. diary, a.|ˈdaɪərɪ|
[ad. med.L. diāri-us daily, f. dies day: cf. F. diaire (‘fievre ephemere ou diaire’) 16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.]
1. Lasting for one day; ephemeral.
1610P. Barrough Meth. Physick iv. ii. (1639) 218 All Diarie feavers be ingendred of an outward Cause. 1611W. Sclater Key (1629) 188 Those ἐϕίµεροι, diary dewy Christians, whose goodnesse is dissipate as soone as euer the Sunne beholds it. 1658Rowland Moufet's Theat. Ins. 948 These diary creatures break forth out of certain husks of putrefied grapes. 1693Phil. Trans. XVII. 660 A Diary Period..may be hence expected. 1707Floyer Physic. Pulse-Watch 122 Obstructions produce a diary Fever if small, but if great a continent Fever. 1834J. M. Good Study Med. (ed. 4) I. 596 There are few persons who have not felt this species of diary fever at times. 1883Syd. Soc. Lex., Diary-fever, a fever lasting one day; also called Ephemera.
†2. Daily. Obs.
1592Sir H. Unton Corr. (Roxb.) 322, I doe kepe a diary memoreall of all the places of our marchinge and incampinge. 1603Sir C. Heydon Jud. Astrol. v. 147 Almanack-writers foretelling the diarie state of the weather. 1623Cockeram, Diarie, daily. |