Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In entom.: The butterflies; the diurnal Lepidoptera or Rhopalocera, as distinguished from the Crepuscularia and Nocturna, or Heterocera (moths).
- An occasional name of insects which in the mature state live only a day or so, as the Ephemeræ or day-flies.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun plural (Zoöl.) A division of Lepidoptera, including the butterflies; -- so called because they fly only in the daytime.
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Examples
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Nocturna versate manu, versate diurna; which may be rendered thus in English:
Letters to his son on The Art of Becoming a Man of the World and a Gentleman 2005
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Se estudi semanalmente dolor espontnea diurna y nocturna.
Chapter 9 1991
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_Gentleman's Magazine_, published in 1740, enters into a disquisition upon these _acta diurna_, and gives an account of the discovery of some of them with the date of 585 A.U. C., and adds some specimens from them.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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The _acta diurna_, or journals of public events, were the daily manuscript reports of the Roman Government during the later commonwealth.
English Literature, Considered as an Interpreter of English History Designed as a Manual of Instruction Henry Coppee
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Among the latter he mentions _acta diurna_ (_Ann. _ iii. 3) and _commentarii_ or
The Student's Companion to Latin Authors Thomas Ross Mills
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(_Lychnis diurna_) is known as "mother-die," the belief being that, if children gather it, some misfortune is sure to happen to the parents.
The Child and Childhood in Folk-Thought Studies of the Activities and Influences of the Child Among Primitive Peoples, Their Analogues and Survivals in the Civilization of To-Day Alexander F. Chamberlain
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_Lychnis preslii_ is a smooth variety of _Lychnis diurna_ and was observed for the first time in the year 1842 by Sekera.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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The white and the blue thorn-apple, the white and the red campion (_Lychnis vespertina_ and _diurna_) and many other illustrative cases could be given, in which two forms are specifically separated by some authors, but combined by others on the ground of the retrograde nature of some differentiating mark.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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Suetonius (Caes. 20) has this account: "_Inito honore, primus omnium instituit, ut tam Senatus quam populi diurna acta conficerentur et publicarentur_," which seems naturally to imply that the people's _acta_ had been published every day before Caesar's consulship, and that he did the same thing for the _acta_ of the senate.
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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How else can we account for the absence of any machinery for multiplying copies of documents, an inconvenience which, in the case of the _acta diurna_, as well as of important letters, must have been keenly felt?
The History of Roman Literature From the earliest period to the death of Marcus Aurelius Charles Thomas Cruttwell 1879
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