noctuary

English

Etymology

From Latin noctu (“by night”). Compare diary.

Noun

noctuary (plural noctuaries)

1. A record of what passes in the night; a nightly journal.
   • 1714 September 7 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, August 27, 1714”, in The Spectator, number 586; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a New Edition, […], volume VI, New York, N.Y.: D[aniel] Appleton & Company, 1853, →OCLC:

     that ingenious gentleman, who promised me […] some extracts out of his noctuary

     The spelling has been modernized.

Anagrams

• cryonaut