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A. adj. Obs. 1. Performed, happening, or recurring every day; daily, diurnal. 2. Of or belonging to one day, restricted to the day; ephemeral. Rare B. n. I. A book or record. 1. Eccl. A service-book containing the day-hours:diurnal n. 1. Obs. a. A book containing notices concerning the daily stages of a route and other information for travellers; = itinerary. (Cf. journey n. 2, 3.) b. A record of travel: =itinerary n. 2. (Now only as in 4a and c.) 3. A daily record of commercial transactions, entered as they occur, in order to the keeping of accounts. a. In a general sense = day-book. b. In Book-keeping by Double Entry, A book in which each transaction is entered, in systematic form, with statement of the accounts to which it is to be debited and credited, so as to ensure correct posting in the ledger. These entries are either made at first-hand, or are journalized from a waste-book or day-book, in which they have been entered as they occur, with-out consideration of the special accounts concerned 4. A daily record of events or occurrences kept for private or offi- cial use. a. A record of events or matters of personal interest kept by any one for his own use, in which entries are made day by day, or as the events occur. (In quots. 1670, 1781, a single day's record.) Now usually implying something more elaborate than a diary. b. A register of daily transactions kept by a public body or an association; spec. in pl. Journals, the record of the daily proc- eedings in one or other of the Houses of Parliament, kept by the Clerk of the House. c. Naut. A daily register of the ship's course, the distance traversed, the winds and weather, etc.; a log or log-book. d. Mining. A record of the strata passed through in drilling a bore-hole or sinking a shaft. 5. A record of public events or of a series of public tran-sactions, noted down as they occur day by day or at succ-essive dates, without historical discussion. Also in pl. Obs. 6. A daily newspaper or other publication; hence, by extension, Any periodical publication containing news or dealing with matters of current interest in any particu- lar sphere. Now often called specifi-cally a public journal. II. Other senses. 7. A day's travel; a journey. Obs. 8. Provision for a journey. (In quot., the viaticum.) Obs. 9. As much land as can be ploughed in a day. Properly the Fr. word journal (Zurnal), a land-measure varying in different departments. 10. in Machinery. The part of a shaft or axle which rests on the bearings. (Sometimes erroneously identified with bearing.) III. 11. Comb. a. General combinations, as journal-wise adv. (adj.). b. Special combinations: in senses 2 and 4: journal- letter, a letter written as a diary; (cf. sense 11a, quot. 1742); in sense 3 (Book-keeping): journal-entry, a formal entry in the journal; in sense 10: journal-bearing, the support of a shaft or axle; journal-box, the box or structure enclosing the journal and its bearings; journal-brass, a journal-bearing of brass, also of white metal, etc.; journal-packing, any mass of fibrous material saturated with oil or grease, and inserted in a journal-box to lubricate the journal. |
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From the editor... |
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The Renaissance is heralded as an era of revival of arts and letters, under the influence of classical models, whose offspring was a period of marked improvement and new life, in arts and literature.
Yet it was equally a time of plagues, wars, and travesties by man on his brother. Many of these atrocities were committed in the name of the very revivalism to which the offenders claimed allegiance.
The medical types are always adept at reducing such intense, dramatic, and historical transitions to simple diagnoses like “growing pains”.
What a paradox is life, eh? From one perspective, the one of enlightened awareness, it is possible to envision a world of endless possibilities if simply seized and exploited. Most introduced to the Bio Cranial System and then sucked into the “Boyd Zone” understand the humor when they are searching for the gospel prose to capture the moment and the most sophisticated description they can come up with is “Wow!”
And yet, when some broach that possible turn in their lives, the other extreme of thought steps up for its turn and casts the gloom of doubt suggesting such hope is folly and just too good to be true.
Been paying attention to daily life lately? Try to imagine a whole day without being subjected to the idea you have to be afraid of something. I write for a magazine and yet I won’t watch the news. Who needs to anymore? I can catch threat level orange on the way to O’Hare and have it repeatedly reinforced by the outdoor television while filling my gas tank. You see it reflected in your patients’ eyes when they seek your hand to give them just some relief from their…(sigh).
The greatest affront to forward motion in any endeavor is fear, which a friend of mine once stated was an acronym for False Evidence Appearing Real. Yet the more entrenched we become in our investment in fear the more resistant we are to the plain truths in front of our very eyes.
What was the “plain truth” that spearheaded the Renaissance? It was the willingness to embrace the classical teachings of nearly a millennium past. It was the decision to finally come out from the Dark Ages and brave new possibilities and dreams...already dreamt by our ancestors. It was the willingness of mankind to confront itself objectively, without fearing the answer to an honest question.
Ergo the Vetruvian Man, that well documented, and well discussed, page from Leonardo’s illustrative... Journal.
See you in the Library,
Bill Jackson |
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August 2008 |
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Volume II Issue 8 |
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