Adjective

(en adjective)

(medicine) Recurring every twenty-four hours or (more generally) daily (of symptoms etc.).

* 1898 , Patrick Manson, Tropical Diseases , p. 104:

Quotidian periodicity we find in greater or less degree in nearly all fevers, particularly in fevers associated with suppuration.

* 1941 , American Journal of Tropical Medicine , vol. XXI:

I regret that the effect of these statements is a denial of the observation of initial quotidian paroxysms following artificial inoculation.

Happening every day; daily.

* 2000 , Marcel Berline, The Guardian , 10 Jul 2000:

I know that the government's daily idea to solve the country's law and order problem is not meant to be taken too seriously, but every now and again I am moved to raise an eyebrow at the quotidian suggestion.

Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced etc. every day or very commonly; commonplace, ordinary; trivial, mundane.

* 2002 , Russ McDonald, in McEachern (Ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Shakespearean Tragedy , p. 28:

Tragedy demanded verse, not the quotidian prose of comedy, and verse usually supplied some form of end rhyme.

* 2010 , Steven Heller & Eddie S Glaude, Becoming a Graphic Designer :

Grids are used for such quotidian items as stationery, business cards, mailing labels, hang tags, instruction manuals, etc.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(Christianity) Bound by religious rule; belonging to a monastic or religious order (often as opposed to (secular)).

* 2002 , , The Great Nation , Penguin 2003, page 201:

A quarter of a million strong in 1680, the clergy was only half as large in 1789. The unpopular regular clergy were the worst affected.

Having a constant pattern; showing evenness of form or appearance.

(geometry, of a polygon) Having all sides of the same length, and all (corresponding) angles of the same size

(geometry, of a polyhedron) Whose faces are all congruent regular polygons, equally inclined to each other.

Demonstrating a consistent set of rules; showing order, evenness of operation or occurrence.

* 2011 , (AL Kennedy), The Guardian , 12 Apr 2011:

April may be the cruellest month, but I am planning to render it civilised and to take my antibiotics in a regular manner.

(now, rare) Well-behaved, orderly; restrained (of a lifestyle etc.).

Happening at constant (especially short) intervals.

(chiefly, US) Having the expected characteristics or appearances; normal, ordinary, standard.

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(chiefly, military) Permanently organised; being part of a set professional body of troops.

Having bowel movements or menstrual periods at constant intervals in the expected way.

(colloquial) Exemplary; excellent example of; utter, downright.

Belonging to a monastic order or community.

regular clergy, in distinction from the secular clergy

(botany, zoology) Having all the parts of the same kind alike in size and shape.

a regular''' flower; a '''regular sea urchin

(crystallography) isometric

(snowboarding) Riding with the left foot forward. BBC Sport, "Sochi 2014: A jargon-busting guide to the halfpipe", 11 February 2014

(analysis, not comparable, of a Borel measure) Such that every set in its domain is both outer regular and inner regular.