diurnalist
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]diurnalist (plural diurnalists)
- (obsolete) A journalist.
- 1649, Joseph Hall, Resolutions and Decisions of Divers Practicall cases of Conscience:
- some odiously incestuous marriages, which, even by the relation of our diurnalists, have, by this means, found a damnable passage, to the great dishonour of God and shame of the Church.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “diurnalist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)