Occurring every other day; as a tertian fever.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. A disease or fever whose paroxysms return every other day; an intermittent occurring after intervals of about forty eight hours.
2. A measure of 84 gallons, the third part of a tun.
Occurring every third day; as, a tertian fever.
1. A disease, especially an intermittent fever, which returns every third day, reckoning inclusively, or in which the intermission lasts one day.
2. A liquid measure formerly used for wine, equal to seventy imperial, or eighty-four wine, gallons, being one third of a tun.
Regularity of recurrence. Periodicity Roget’s Thesaurus §138
N. periodicity, intermittence, beat, oscillation, pulse, pulsation, rhythm, alternation, alternateness, alternativeness, alternity, bout, round, revolution, rotation, turn, say, anniversary, jubilee, centenary, catamenia, courses, menses, menstrual flux, rota, cycle, period, stated time, routine, days of the week, sunday, monday &c, months of the year, january &c, feast, fast &c, christmas, easter, new year's day &c. allhallows, allhallowmas, all saints' day, all souls', all souls' day, ash wednesday, bicentennial, birthday, bissextile, candlemas, dewali, groundhog day, halloween, hallowmas, lady day, leap year, midsummer day, muharram, woodchuck day, st. swithin's day, natal day, yearbook, yuletide, punctuality, regularity, steadiness
V. recur in regular order, recur in regular succession, return, revolve, come again, come in its turn, come round, come round again, beat, pulsate, alternate, intermit
Adj. periodic, periodical, serial, recurrent, cyclical, rhythmical, recurring, intermittent, remittent, alternate, every other, hourly, diurnal, daily, quotidian, tertian, weekly, hebdomadal|, hebdomadary|, biweekly, fortnightly, bimonthly, catamenial|, monthly, menstrual, yearly, annual, biennial, triennial, &c, centennial, secular, paschal, lenten, &c. regular, steady, punctual, regular as clockwork
Adv. periodically, at regular intervals, at stated times, at fixed established, at established periods, punctually, de die in diem, from day to day, day by day, by turns, in turn, in rotation, alternately, every other day, off and on, ride and tie, round and round
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