[f. JOURNAL a. + BOOK sb., after F. livre journal, OF. papier journal, but the first element is now felt as JOURNAL sb., as if the sense were ‘book containing, or consisting of, a journal.’] A day-book of any kind; a diary of events; a book containing daily records.
1603. Florio, Montaigne, II. xviii. (1897), IV. 184. So are the Jornal bookes [F. papiers journaux] of Alexander the great … greatly to be desired.
1659. Rushw., Hist. Coll., I. 54. His Majesty did this present day … manu sua propria take the said Protestation out of the Journal-book of the Clerk of the Commons House of Parliament.
1682. Grew, Anat. Plants, Pref. Of this, entry was made in their [the Royal Society’s] Journal Book.
1726. Swift, Gulliver, I. ii. My comb and silver snuff-box, my handkerchief and journal-book.
1807. Edin. Rev., IX. 305. Every traveller carries a Journal-book as regularly as a portmanteau.
