routinary
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]routinary (comparative more routinary, superlative most routinary)
- Involving, or pertaining to, routine; customary.
- routinary visitation
- routinary jobs
- routinary activities
- 1870, Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Works and Days”, in Society and Solitude. Twelve Chapters, Boston, Mass.: Fields, Osgood, & Co., →OCLC, pages 163–164:
- [H]e [the savant] retreats into his routinary existence, which is quite separate from his scientific.
References
[edit]- “routinary”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.