Meanings
- humorousnot comparableraremidnight
Mesonoxian wanderer, bathed in moonlit shadows […]
2015, Dena M. Ferrari, Charmed Times Three, page 1102 more examples
A tumble would have had serious consequences. It had been unforgivable recklessness, but also tremendously sexy. YouTube found the graphic documentation of my mesonoxian madness too explicit but it was present on a few other video sites […]
2014, Malcolm James Thomson, TheodoraLandGlancing at the gold clock on the mantelpiece I see that it is already midnight, the most potent time of night for Lazarus witches, so that all our most important events are timed to start to coincide with the mesonoxian hour.
2014, Paula Brackston, The Midnight Witch
Origin
From meso- (“middle”) + Latin nox (“night”) + -ian.
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mesonoxian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/mesonoxian
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