dailyadj.n.
/ˈdeɪli/, U.S. /ˈdeɪli/ A. adj.† 3. Of the present day; belonging to the present time. Obsolete. rare.
1.
a. Of or relating to each day; done or occurring every day; (more generally) frequent, constant. Also: happening or experienced every day; continual, routine.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adjective] > everyday or daily
dailyOE
daiwhomlyOE
quotidian?1406
quotidialc1503
journal1590
diary1592
diurnal1594
quotidianary1719
journalaryc1740
day-to-day1861
OE (Mercian) Rushw. Gospels: Matt. xx. 2 Conuentione autem facta cum operarius [read operariis] ex denario duerno [read diurno] misit eos in uiniam suam : & þa geþingadun wið þæm wyrhtum be dinere..deglicum sende hio in þone wingeard.
OE Rule St. Benet (Corpus Cambr.) xliii. 69 On þæm dæglicum [a1225 Winteney dæȝlicum] tidum, se ðe to ðam anginne þæs tidsanges ne cume, ær ðæm þe se gloria þæs forman sealmes sy gesungen.
c1425 Bk. Found. St. Bartholomew's (1923) 27 This reste [sc. sleep], longe and dayly sweitis and laboures allightith.
1449 Rolls of Parl.: Henry VI (Electronic ed.) Parl. Feb. 1449 §17. m. 5 The grete contynuall and daily damages, that ther ben don by the adversaries.
1488 (c1478) Hary Actis & Deidis Schir William Wallace (Adv.) (1968–9) xii. l. 1291 For dayly mes and heryng off confessioun.
1553 R. Eden in tr. S. Münster Treat. Newe India Pref. sig. aavv Proued..by dayly experience.
1597 Bp. J. King Lect. Ionas vii. 103 Strengthen the hands of them that keepe an Εϕήμερις, a daily recorde of all our actions.
1611 Bible (King James) Exod. v. 13 Fulfill your workes, your dayly taskes. View more context for this quotation
1660 Bp. J. Taylor Worthy Communicant i. v. 103 We give too much way to the daily incursions of the smaller irregularities of our lives.
1735 Articles against late Lord B—ke 5 He found himself immediately exposed to a daily Struggle with Difficulties of three sorts.
1775 S. Johnson Let. 13 July (1992) II. 247 The hay harvest is here very much incommoded by daily showers.
1835 W. Kirby On Power of God in Creation of Animals II. xvii. 218 We add daily increments to our knowledge and science.
1868 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 19 Sept. 320/2 When it is considered..that the daily sick-list stands at 33..it is too much to expect an educated gentleman to attend to these for a daily wage of about 1s. 4½d.
1906 H. Johnston et al. Living Races of Mankind (new ed.) II. 563 The whole household, servants and all, join in the daily meals.
1955 Rotarian Aug. 10/2 Nature's headlines from the wilderness carry no such affrighting headlines as daily news reports.
1992 Times Higher Educ. Suppl. 27 Mar. 24/5 Text and precedent-books which lawyers use on a daily basis.
2013 New Yorker 12 Aug. 27/3 This poised, involuted micro-drama concerns the daily struggle of a lonely sixtyish divorcé (Paul Eenhoorn), an Australian immigrant, to find his footing in Reno, Nevada.
b. Of a newspaper, periodical, etc.: published every day, or every day except Sunday. Cf. Sunday newspaper n. at Sunday n. and adv. Compounds 2.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [adjective] > daily
daily1711
journalier1714
1711 T. Hearne Remarks & Coll. (1889) III. 153 A Daily paper comes out call'd The Spectator.
1764 Public Advertiser 30 June By your inserting it in your useful Daily Magazine, some of your Correspondents may be induced to give their Sentiments on the Use or Disuse of the Contrivance.
1841 Provinc. Med. & Surg. Jrnl. 27 Feb. 355/1 We have purposely abstained from filling our pages with the various anecdotes which have been going the round of the daily and weekly periodicals.
1874 Athenæum 12 Sept. 353 The sub-editor of a New York daily newspaper wrote to me begging me to send him the proper materials for the construction of an obit.
1914 in Civil Service Year Bk. (1916) 294 They take 6 penny daily papers and 3 halfpenny ones; 3 weeklies costing 3d. each and 5 weeklies costing 6d. each.
1950 N. Coward in B. Day N. Coward: Compl. Lyrics (1998) 262/2 Then next day we read about our capers In the daily papers, Blimey, what a lark!
2013 Times (Nexis) 13 Mar. 18 The Telegraph Media Group is to cut 80 jobs in a move to merge its daily and Sunday newspapers and focus on its digital business.
2.
a. That performs an action every day (or every working day); (more generally) that does something frequently or constantly.
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1531 in I. S. Leadam Select Cases Star Chamber (1911) II. 184 Most humbly Shewen and Complayn vnto your good lordship your daily Oratours.
1568 E. Tilney Brief Disc. Mariage (new ed.) sig. Cj A daylie gamester, a common blasphemer.
1608 E. Topsell Hist. Serpents 4 My Worshipfull good friend, and daily encourager vnto all good labours.
c1613 (?1465) in T. Stapleton Plumpton Corr. (1839) 14 Your dayly Bedewoman my huswif.
1691 A. Wood Athenæ Oxonienses I. 349 Richard Field..took the degrees in Arts, and afterwards for about 7 years was not only a daily Reader of Logick and Philosophy, but also a Moderator.
1759 Idler 3 Feb. 33 To be a daily spectatress of his vices.
1846 Amer. Whig Rev. May 523/1 It will be long before the daily patroller of Broadway will look with indifference on its delicate fretted work and elaborate finish.
1923 Auk 40 443 After a bird once gets the ‘trap habit’ it becomes not only a daily visitor, but we often record it several times each day.
1987 E. Simpson Orphans (1988) i. ii. 28 Grandpa was a temperance man, a vegetarian, a daily churchgoer.
2010 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 365 2811/1 Settlements with a high proportion of daily commuters.
b. That is employed in some capacity every day (or every working day); engaged or paid on a daily basis; spec. (chiefly British) designating a person employed to do cleaning or other household work on a day-to-day basis, who does not live on the premises but returns home at the end of each day, as daily help, daily woman, etc. (now somewhat archaic).
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1608 T. Milles Custumers Alphabet & Primer sig. K Iustice hath appointed, that the daily Labourer be truly payd his hyre.
1661 O. Felltham Resolves (rev. ed.) 226 The daily Labouring Man sells both his strength, his time, and his ease.
1819 Monthly Rev. 90 App. 517 Men would renounce the refinements of arts and manufactures if it were necessary that every one should purchase them by a constant labour, like that of the daily workman.
1823 W. Traill Vindic. Orkney iii. 23 He is a daily servant till the end of May, when he works in the kelp at a stipulated price per ton.
1878 Hampshire Advertiser 8 May 2/1 Wanted by a Lady living in the country.., a daily governess for three young children.
1884 Sheffield & Rotherham Independent 6 Dec. 5/1 Wanted, daily girl, above 16, who can wash and clean well.
1910 Times 26 July 22/2 Temporary plain cook required at once..two in family, three servants and daily woman kept.
1971 Woman 13 Feb. 13/2 I gave Mrs. Candy, the daily help, a suit for her daughter.
2007 Jrnl. Econ. Perspectives 21 152 The most common occupation for the poor in Udaipur is working as a daily laborer.
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the world > time > relative time > the present (time) > [adjective]
present1340
nowa1393
presentary?a1425
unrun1474
modernc1485
hodiern?a1513
actual1525
modernal1542
instantc1550
this1582
immediate1605
current1608
nowadays1609
nowaday1632
hodiernal1656
living1659
running1659
daily1663
existent1676
existing1827
present-day1833
presential1878
today1908
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders 8 Why modern and daily Buildings are so exceedingly Defective.
B. n.
1. A daily newspaper or periodical. Cf. sense A. 1b.
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society > communication > journalism > journal > newspaper > [noun] > daily
diurnal1640
daily1754
1754 London Mag. Dec. 639/1 But if to Tom's I stray to read the daily, Or at the tavern spend my evening gaily.
1827 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. June 883/2 Dailies are very dull—Weeklies flatter than we ever remember them—and for Monthlies, there is no sale.
1832 J. K. Paulding Westward Ho! I. xxi. 190 ‘Make out an estimate of the cost of establishing a paper.’ ‘A daily, sir?’ ‘Ay, a daily, if you wish.’
1851 C. Cist Sketches & Statistics Cincinnati 74 These are all dailies, tri-weeklies, and weekly reissues of dailies.
1881 Academy 26 Mar. 234 The foreign correspondent of one of the great dailies.
1933 Archit. Rev. 74 176/2 The women's pages of the popular dailies.
1965 New Statesman 30 Apr. 679/1 The national daily he would like is still denied him.
2001 Globe & Mail (Toronto) 17 May b1/5 Four traditional dailies and three commuter papers are competing for readers and advertisers in the city.
2. colloquial. = daily bread n. at Compounds. Now rare.
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > livelihood
lifeOE
foodOE
livelihoodc1300
livingc1330
ploughc1390
purchasec1475
daily bread1526
being1570
governing1572
shift1572
supportation1576
thrift1579
livelihead1590
thrive1592
breadwinnera1614
subsistence1644
gain1655
bread and butter1691
through-bearing1705
bread1719
bread ticket1801
daily1817
lifehood1823
rice bowl1853
crust1916
1817 Hone's Reformists' Reg. 22 Feb. 158 I have no doubt, he would at this moment exchange his situation..for that of the Negro, who earns his ‘daily’, by sweeping the crossing at Mr. Waithman's corner!
1906 E. Dyson Fact'ry 'Ands xiv. 182 What's er bonzer like you doin' spreadin' sour paste fer yer daily?
1922 J. Joyce Ulysses ii. iv. [Calypso] 55 Boland's breadvan delivering with trays our daily but she prefers yesterday's loaves.
3. Film and Television. In plural. The unedited footage at the end of a day's shooting for a film or television programme; the first prints of a day's filmed scenes. Cf. rush n.2 15.
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society > leisure > the arts > performance arts > cinematography > printing > [noun] > a print > first prints
rush1920
daily1925
1925 Los Angeles Times 29 Nov. b6 Dailies , the result of a day's filming which the director, cameraman and, perhaps, the leading players in a company look at in the projection room after work at night.
1934 Tit-bits 31 Mar. 12/2 Every time a scene is successfully ‘shot’ it is called ‘a take’; the whole of the day's ‘takes’ are then assembled and shown to the producer in a private projection room, but are then known as ‘the rushes’ or ‘the dailies’.
1952 L. Ross Picture (1953) iii. 106 I haven't had a chance to tell you how wonderful I feel the dailies (rushes) are.
1999 J. Gleick Faster (2000) 174 Levinson watches through both cameras at once via remote television monitors—on the modern film set, there is no waiting around for ‘dailies’.
4. Chiefly British. A person employed to do cleaning or other household work on a day-to-day basis, who does not live on the premises but returns home at the end of each day. Cf. sense A. 2b. Now somewhat archaic.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > personal or domestic servant > domestic servant > [noun] > servant who lives out > charwoman
charwoman1596
schorerc1638
femme de ménage1826
char1906
daily1933
obliger1941
Mrs Mop1948
1933 D. C. Peel Life's Enchanted Cup xix. 261 In my youth there were charwomen but the ‘daily’ is a new invention.
1967 L. Meynell Mauve Front Door iii. 31 Most ‘dailies’ I have known have been disastrous. They come late; charge exorbitantly; drop ash all over the place.
1991 Business (BNC) July 96 There was a butler, a cook, a pantry maid, a nanny for my sister and me and one or two dailies.
2013 Sunday Times (Nexis) 24 Mar. (Features section) 17 There is a daily for cleaning, and fresh flowers are delivered every day.
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daily bread n. the food or sustenance a person requires every day in order to survive; (hence, by extension) livelihood, living, means of subsistence; cf. bread n. 4b. [With reference to the Lord's Prayer (e.g. Matthew 6:11: compare quot. 1526). Compare German tägliches Brot (1522 as teglich Brot in Luther's translation of the gospels). Compare also the discussion at supersubstantial adj. and the Old English parallels cited at that entry.]
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society > occupation and work > [noun] > regular occupation, trade, or profession > livelihood
lifeOE
foodOE
livelihoodc1300
livingc1330
ploughc1390
purchasec1475
daily bread1526
being1570
governing1572
shift1572
supportation1576
thrift1579
livelihead1590
thrive1592
breadwinnera1614
subsistence1644
gain1655
bread and butter1691
through-bearing1705
bread1719
bread ticket1801
daily1817
lifehood1823
rice bowl1853
crust1916
1526 Bible (Tyndale) Matt. vi. f. vijv Geve vs this daye oure dayly breade [Gk. τὸν ἄρτον..τὸν ἐπιούσιον].
1655 tr. C. Sorel Comical Hist. Francion iv. 17 The Father of Hortensius did keep sheep, and was constrained to work with his hands for his daily bread.
1772 New Foundling Hosp. for Wit: Pt. 5th 32 Time was she earn'd her daily bread, And walk'd the streets in pattens.
1862 Ld. Brougham Brit. Constit. (ed. 3) iv. 62 The daily labour to gain their daily bread.
2004 T. Khair Bus Stopped 71 I sold off my jewels..and he entered the clothes retail business. That provided us with our daily bread, but it was not enough.
daily-breader n. colloquial (now somewhat archaic) a person who does regular, paid work (esp. office work) in order to earn a living; cf. daily bread n.Sometimes with the implication that the work concerned is mundane or undertaken purely from the necessity of earning a wage.
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society > occupation and work > worker > [noun] > one earning a living
winner1352
providerc1485
bread earner1602
breadwinner1783
bread artist1827
daily-breader1872
1872 Med. Times & Gaz. 27 July 112/2 Returning in a train crammed with daily-breaders, read of the terrible heat and the numerous deaths in India.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 25 Sept. 1/3 In place of the neat villa of the daily-breader..it now journeys between rows of low, monotonous houses.
1942 N. Streatfeild I ordered Table for Six 99 There I was catching a tube, a daily breader.
2000 B. Hollingsworth Illustr. Directory Trains of World (2001) 195 This was the Long Island Rail Road.., whose whole basis of existence was bringing daily-breaders to and from the city of New York.
daily double n. chiefly Horse Racing a single bet placed on the winners of two (often consecutive) races in a single day's racing; (also) the two races designated as eligible for such a bet; cf. double n. Additions.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > betting > [noun] > type of bet
swoopstake1599
by-beta1627
levant1714
even money1732
play or pay bet1738
side bet1769
long shot1796
sweep1849
pay-or-play1853
sweepstake1861
pari-mutuel1868
to go a raker1869
flutter1874
skinner1874
by-wager1886
plunge1888
accumulator1889
saver1891
mutuel1893
quinella1902
parlay1904
Sydney or the bush1924
treble1924
daily double1930
all-up1933
round robin1944
double1951
twin double1960
perfecta1961
pool1963
lose bet1964
tiercé1964
Yankee bet1964
Yankee1967
nap1971
superfecta1971
tricast1972
triple1972
trixie1973
telebetting1974
trifecta1974
over-and-under1975
over-under1981
spread bet1981
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > racing or race > horse racing > [noun] > types of racing > types of race
wild-goose race1594
wild goose chase1597
bell-course1607
Palio1673
stake1696
paddock course1705
handicap1751
by-match1759
pony race1765
give and take plate1769
sweepstake1773
steeplechase1793
mile-heat1802
steeple race1809
welter1820
trotting-race1822
scurry1824
walkover1829
steeple hunt1831
set-to1840
sky race1840
flat race1848
trot1856
grind1857
feeler1858
nursery1860
waiting race1868
horse-trot1882
selling plate1888
flying milea1893
chase1894
flying handicap1894
prep1894
selling race1898
point-to-point1902
seller1922
shoo-in1928
daily double1930
bumper1946
selling chase1965
tiercé1981
1930 Times 25 Sept. 5/3 (heading) Totalisator Daily Double.
1931 Manitoba Free Press 21 May 19/1 The ‘daily double’ system of betting was inaugurated for the first time on this continent at Victoria Park this afternoon.
1964 A. Wykes Gambling viii. 193 You can put your money on a ‘daily double’, which is usually run on the first two races of the day.
1987 Washington Post 19 Sept. c3/5 Regular triple betting will be offered on the sixth and eighth races, and the daily double will be pushed back to the sixth and seventh races.
2008 Daily Tel. (Sydney) (Nexis) 20 Mar. (Sport section) 51 NSW TAB punters can take advantage of the zero commission rate on the Daily Double at every Sydney Saturday thoroughbred meeting until May 10.
daily dozen n. (also with capital initials) (originally) (the name of) a set of physical exercises designed to be performed each day on rising; (later more generally) any exercise or group of exercises performed on a daily basis.The name ‘Daily Dozen’ was originally given to a set of twelve exercises devised by American sportsman Walter Camp (1859–1925) for naval recruits during the First World War (1914–18). At the end of the war Camp published his system in several periodicals, on gramophone record, and in a book (see W. Camp Daily Dozen (1921)), and it became widely popular.
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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > gymnastics > exercise > [noun]
playeOE
stirringa1400
laboura1530
exercisea1533
activity1542
motion1568
gymnastic1598
gymnastics1652
capriccio1665
grind1857
physical drill1873
ekker1891
physical jerks1917
daily dozen1918
workout1923
sexercise1942
1918 Syracuse (N.Y.) Herald 28 Apr. (Mag.) 3 (heading) Camp's ‘Daily Dozen Set-up’ posed by popular actress to prove how everyman and everywoman can become fitter.
1919 Red Cross Mag. Dec. 30/3 It was while engaged in this work that he evolved what he [sc. Walter Camp] calls his ‘short-hand system’ of setting-up exercises, or ‘the daily dozen’.
1936 P. G. Wodehouse Laughing Gas iv. 43 Ann is one of those girls who always look as if they had just stepped out of a cold bath after doing their daily dozen.
1965 W. Lamb Posture & Gesture ix. 121 Physical exercises, whether performed privately as a daily dozen, or in a class to the accompaniment of music, may be a pleasant and stimulating way of passing the time.
1998 Mirror (Nexis) 5 Dec. 32 Tai Chi, the balletic exercises many Chinese perform as the equivalent of the westerner's ‘daily dozen’.
daily grind n. colloquial a daily routine of work or activity, esp. as considered to be dull or tiresomely repetitious; the usual day's work or routine, regarded as unremitting and laborious; cf. grind n.1 2.
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society > occupation and work > work > [noun] > servile or menial work
thrall-workc1175
drudgery1548
slavery1551
journey-work1614
drudgery work1632
slave work1808
hackwork1824
dog's work1847
dog work1850
grind1851
daily grind1853
slave work1916
donkey-work1920
clock-punching1929
legwork1942
shitwork1958
kyeyo1996
1853 Illustr. London News 24 Dec. 578/1 Wearied with this daily grind.
1938 Life Mag. 3 Oct. 67/2 The tiresome daily grind of dusting and tidying up is ended by the Premier Vac-Kit.
1983 Crane Bag 7 59/1 He took refuge in bookshops at lunchtime and wrote long into the night when he was released from his daily grind.
2000 W. Self How Dead Live (2001) xvi. 379 Still, I missed the daily grind, the vapid office chit-chat, the strap-hanging on the tube.
daily life n. the circumstances, activities, and experiences that routinely constitute a person’s existence; the ordinary course of everyday life, esp. as embodied in conventions of thought or behaviour.
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the world > action or operation > behaviour > way of life > [noun]
lifeeOE
lifewayOE
livelihoodOE
livingc1350
dietc1460
tradec1485
use1488
daily life1516
way of living1516
governmenta1616
way of lifea1616
tread1628
mode1758
1516 Kalendre Newe Legende Eng. (Pynson) f. lxxxviiiv This was his dayly lyfe he sayd euery day the Psaulter wt .CC. prayers & dayly sayd masse he taught disciples preched to the people & euery houre he marked hymself with a .C. crosses.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost viii. 193 To know That which before us lies in daily life . View more context for this quotation
1823 T. De Quincey in London Mag. Apr. 375/1 That worst..of all diseases, weariness of daily life—inirritability of the nerves to the common stimulants which life supplies, seized upon him.
1923 National Geographic Mag. Apr. 425/2 Daily life among this small element is still seriously swayed by signs and superstitions.
1956 W. R. Ashby Introd. Cybernetics vi. 86 In our daily lives we are confronted at every turn with systems whose internal mechanisms are not fully open to inspection.
2004 Daily Tel. 17 May 7/6 Lack of social skills and common sense leave him bewildered by daily life and vulnerable to bullying and exploitation.
daily waiter n. now historical a person who is in continual attendance upon a superior (see waiter n. 5, 6); spec. (in the British royal household) one of a group of four gentleman-ushers (gentleman-usher n.) each responsible in turn for attending or waiting on the sovereign in the presence chamber (cf. quarter waiter n.).By the middle of the 19th century, holders of the office of Gentleman-Usher Daily Waiter were no longer required to perform duties within the royal household, although the Senior Gentleman-Usher always concurrently held the office of Usher of the Black Rod. As a distinct category of Gentleman Usher, the post of Daily Waiter ceased to exist in the early 20th century.
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society > authority > subjection > service > servant > types of servant > [noun] > other types of servant
minstrel?c1225
mill-knavec1380
subdeacona1382
rehetoura1425
daily waiter1519
apparitor1533
Nethinim1535
fealc1650
washpot1678
Sunday outer1837
comprador1840
liveryman1841
running dog1969
1519 Statutes Prohemium Iohannis Rastell sig. Aivv Also yemen of the garde and yemen of ye quenys chambre dayly wayters & yemen of ye crown hauynge ye fee may were dublettis of blak veluet satten.
1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes i. f.41v Diogenes called Aristippus the kynges hounde, because he was a dayly waiter, and gaue contynuall attendaunce in the Courte of Dionysius the Tyranne of Sicilie.
1669 E. Chamberlayne Angliæ Notitia 268 In the Presence Chamber, Gentlemen-Ushers, daily Waiters in Ordinary are 4, whereof the first hath the Office of Black Rod, and in time of Parliament is to attend every day the Lords House, and is also Usher of the Honourable Order of the Garter... Their Office is to wait in the Presence Chamber, and to attend next the Kings Person.
1812 W. Elford Let. 24 June in A. G. L'Estrange Friendships M. R. Mitford (1882) iii. 64 An election at Plymouth, occasioned by Sir T. Tyrwhitt's having accepted of the office of King's Gentleman Usher of the Black Rod, and Daily Waiter.
1901 Times 23 May 9/6 The death occurred last night of Colonel the Hon. Charles Eliot, Gentleman Usher Daily Waiter to the King.
1993 R. O. Bucholz Augustan Court v. 121 The work of the public rooms was coordinated from the presence by the gentleman usher, daily waiter, in attendance.
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dailyadv.
/ˈdeɪli/, U.S. /ˈdeɪli/ Every day; day after day. Also more generally: frequently; continuously, routinely; all the time.
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the world > time > period > a day or twenty-four hours > [adverb]
daiwhomlyOE
adaya1200
day for dayc1386
day by dayc1390
daily1416
quotidianlya1438
quotidiallyc1475
per diem1485
journally1554
diurnally1599
day after day1830
day-to-day1928
1416 in G. Hadley New & Compl. Hist. Kingston-upon-Hull (1788) 745 (MED) Yay wylle..yat yay pray dayly on sex of ye clok atte evyn in ye same fourme.
c1430 in J. B. Sheppard Christ Church Lett. (1877) 9 (MED) My Lady Tatryshale recomendith here to yowre gracious lordshyp and grete kindchip that ye schewe on to hyr dayly.
a1450 York Plays (1885) 219 My desire muste dayly be done.
1526 W. Bonde Pylgrimage of Perfection Pref. sig. Aii Wherin dayly & hourely I might loke, as in a mirour.
1573 T. Tusser Fiue Hundreth Points Good Husbandry f. 31/2 Loke dayly well to them, least doggs vndo them.
?a1645 A. Stafford Just Apol. in Life Blessed Virgin (1860) p. xxi With bended Knees I dayly beseech God.
1683 T. Tryon Way to Health 586 Most People take care that their Furnitures are daily brushed and rubbed.
1712 J. Addison Spectator No. 265. ¶6 I am informed that this Fashion spreads daily.
1747 J. Wesley Primitive Physick 93 Drink daily half a pint.
1789 W. Cowper Let. 16 Aug. (1982) III. 311 [Fame] is a commodity that daily sinks in value.
1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 75 He continued to offer his advice daily, and had the mortification to find it daily rejected.
1885 R. Buchanan Annan Water v The public waggonette ran daily between Dumfries and Annanmouth.
1926 Amer. Speech 1 265/1 Specimens of the jargon daily spoken by witnesses believing they talk pure Anglo-Saxon.
1967 Canad. Med. Assoc. Jrnl. 7 Oct. 886/1 He had consumed an average of 5 to 6 quarts (about 120–140 ounces) of beer daily.
2004 Birmingham Evening Mail (Nexis) 25 Feb. 8 Daily, I navigate three dogs around broken glass, chickenbones, pizza boxes and leftover take-aways.
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