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diurnal

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diurnal
1. (of flowers) open during the day and closed at night
2. (of animals) active during the day
3. a service book containing all the canonical hours except matins

diurnal [dī′ərnĀ·əl]
(biology)
Active during daylight hours.
(science and technology)
Occuring during the daytime.


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During the day the animals obsequiously followed the shadow of the smallest tree as it moved round the stem with the diurnal roll; and when the milkers came they could hardly stand still for the flies.
There is an abstruse astrologer that saith, If it were not for two things that are constant (the one is, that the fixed stars ever stand a like distance one from another, and never come nearer together, nor go further asunder; the other, that the diurnal motion perpetually keepeth time), no individual would last one moment.
She had his companionship no longer; I esteemed it a duty to supply its lack, as much as possible, with mine: an inefficient substitute; for I could only spare two or three hours, from my numerous diurnal occupations, to follow her footsteps, and then my society was obviously less desirable than his.
 
 
 
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