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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

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113 words match “URNAL”

Of or pertaining to an urn; effected by an urn or urns. "Urnal interments." Sir T. Browne.

Adjournment; postponement. [R.] "An adjournal of the Diet." Sir W. Scott.

DIURNAL a. 7 definitions

belonging to the period of daylight, distinguished from the night; -- opposed to Ant: nocturnal; as, diurnal heat; diurnal hours.

A journalist. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Daily; every day.

The quality of being diurnal.

Of long continuance; lasting. [R.] Milton.

Pertaining to the time of equal day and night; -- applied to the equinoctial line. Whewell.

JOURNAL a. 5 definitions

Daily; diurnal. [Obs.] Whiles from their journal labors they did rest. Spenser.

JOURNALISM n. 2 definitions

The keeping of a journal or diary. [Obs.]

JOURNALIST n. 2 definitions

One who keeps a journal or diary. [Obs.] Mickle.

JOURNALISTIC a.

Pertaining to journals or to journalists; contained in, or characteristic of, the public journals; as journalistic literature or enterprise.

JOURNALIZE v. 2 definitions

To enter or record in a journal or diary. Johnson.

NOCTURNAL a. 3 definitions

Of, pertaining to, done or occuring in, the night; as, nocturnal darkness, cries, expedition, etc.; -- opposed to Ant: diurnal. Dryden.

NOCTURNALLY adv.

By night; nightly.

SATURNALIA n. 2 definitions

the festival of Saturn, celebrated in December, originally during one day, but afterward during seven days, as a period of unrestrained license and merriment for all classes, extending even to the slaves.

SATURNALIAN a. 2 definitions

Of or pertaining to the Saturnalia.

SEMIDIURNAL a. 2 definitions

hours, or in half the time between the rising and setting of a heavenly body; as, a semidiurnal arc.

aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and dairy or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4'', and in the latter, to 0.3''. Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to…

ACCELERATION n.

Acceleration and retardation of the tides. See Priming of the tides, under Priming. -- Diurnal acceleration of the fixed stars, the amount by which their apparent diurnal motion exceeds that of the sun, in consequence of which they daily come to the meridian of any place about three minutes fifty-six seconds of solar…