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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Daily \Dai"ly\, adv
Every day day by day as a thing happens daily.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Daily \Dai"ly\ (d[=a]"l[y^]), a. [AS. d[ae]gl[=i]c; d[ae]g day +
-l[=i]c like See {Day}.]
Happening, or belonging to each successive day diurnal; as
daily labor; a daily bulletin.
Give us this day our daily bread. --Matt. vi
11.
Bunyan has told us . . . that in New England his dream
was the daily subject of the conversation of thousands.
--Macaulay.
Syn: {Daily}, {Diurnal}.
Usage: Daily is Anglo-Saxon, and diurnal is Latin. The former
is used in reference to the ordinary concerns of life;
as daily wants daily cares daily employments. The
latter is appropriated chiefly by astronomers to what
belongs to the astronomical day as the diurnal
revolution of the earth.
Man hath his daily work of body or mind
Appointed, which declares his dignity, And the
regard of Heaven on all his ways. --Milton.
Half yet remains unsung, but narrower bound
Within the visible diurnal sphere. --Milton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Daily \Dai"ly\, n.; pl {Dailies}.
A publication which appears regularly every day as the
morning dailies.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
daily
adj 1: occurring or done each day "a daily record"; "day-by-day
labors of thousands of men and women"- H.S.Truman;
"her day-after-day behavior"; "an everyday occurrence"
[syn: {day-to-day}, {day-after-day}, {everyday}]
2: occurring every day or measured by the day "a daily
newspaper"; "daily chores" "average daily wage"; "daily
quota"
n : a newspaper that is published every day
adv 1: without missing a day "he stops by daily" [syn: {every day},
{each day}]
2: gradually and progressively; "his health weakened day by
day" [syn: {day by day}]
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