Meanings
- not comparableobsoletepossiblyrareComprising a night and a day.
A noctidial period on Earth is 24 hours long.
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The Noctidial Day, the Lunar Periodic Month, and the Solar Year are Natural and Universal; but Incommensurate each to other, and difficult to be reconciled: Yet we are constrained to make use of them, as Measures […]
1694, William Holder, A discourse concerning Time, with application of the natural day, and lunar month, and solar year, as natural, page 98[…] I extended my peragration of the occident in an austrine direction. After the profection of a noctidial period, I espied an ample concourse […]
1856, Samuel Klinefelter Hoshour, Letters to Squire Pedant, in the East, page 32Farewell to noctidial sittings, / Snatched naps, and occasional "nips"! / Good-bye to swift-bolted bun-lunches, / To tasks which I did not expect, […]
1884, Mark Lemon, Henry Mayhew, Tom Taylor, Shirley Brooks, Francis Cowley Burnand, Owen Seaman, Punch, page 102
Origin
- Latinnox
- Englishnoctidial
From Latin nox, noctis (“night”) + dies (“day”).
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noctidial. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/noctidial
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