JOURNAL

(Ital. giornale, ».^. diurnale.) Strictly a record or account of daily occurrences. It is more extensively employed to signify a narrative, periodically or occasionally published, of the transactions of a society, .; as by ourselves in the phrase " Journals of the Houses of Parliament," . It is also used as synonymous with Magazine, or other periodical publications of that cla . [s. 633]