Having the characteristics of something which can be seen, experienced, etc, every day or very commonly.
The story or the painting would serve to connect the part with the whole, the event with the myth, the quotidian with the sacred.
A fever which recurs every day; quotidian malaria.
If I could meet that Fancie-monger, I would giue him some good counsel, for he seemes to haue the Quotidian of Loue vpon him.
A daily allowance formerly paid to certain members of the clergy.
Commonplace or mundane things regarded as a class.
From Anglo-Norman cotidian, cotidien, Middle French cotidian, cotidien, and their source, Latin cottīdiānus, quōtīdiānus (“happening every day”), from adverb cottīdiē, quōtīdiē (“every day, daily”), f...
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More than opposable thumbs and the invention of the flinthead axe, it was our ability to transcend the quotidian by weaving tales of awe and wonder that set us apart from the beasts.