Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Of or pertaining to yesterday.
Wiktionary
- adj. rare Of or pertaining to yesterday.
Etymologies
- From hestern + -al, from Latin hesternus ("of yesterday"). (Wiktionary)
Examples
“Life has few direr disenchanters than the morning smells of obsolete tobacco, relics though they be of hesternal beatitude.”
Tobacco; Its History, Varieties, Culture, Manufacture and Commerce
“There as he smoked and puffed, and looked out upon the bright crocuses, and meditated over the dim recollections of the hesternal journal, did Mr. Briggs revolve in his mind the vast importance of the borough of Buyemall to the”
“I rose by candle-light, and consumed, in the intensest application, the hours which every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.”
“There as he smoked and puffed, and looked out upon the bright crocuses, and meditated over the dim recollections of the hesternal journal, did Mr. Briggs revolve in his mind the vast importance of the borough of Buyemall to the British empire, and the vast importance of John Briggs to the borough of Buyemall.”
“I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch-light; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume, and write, in”
Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 3 (of 6) With His Letters and Journals
“I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch-light; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume, and write, in _Ipecacuanha_,”
“I passed up a side-street, one of those deserted ways ... dim places, fusty with hesternal excitements and the thrills of yesteryear.”
“South Pole: was flown over for the first time by American explorer hesternal”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘hesternal’.
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phrontistery - h
from phrontistery.info
hysteresis, hyrax, hyoid, hymnody, hymnal, hylicism, hydric, hyalopterous, hyaloid, hyalography, hyaline, hyacinthine and 568 more...
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Logolepsy
"Luciferous Logolepsy is a collection of over 9,000 obscure English words. Though the definition of an 'English' word might seem to be straightforward, it is not. There exist so many adopted, deriv...
Anschauung, Areopagus, Argus, Briarean, Dei gratia, Dei judicium, Deo volente, Duecento, Foehn, Geflugelte Worte, Gegenschein, Hakenkreuz and 9230 more...
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Originventory
Beformitables; previousness, past-referents, and origins.
erstwhile, formication, quondam, atavistic, umquhile, yestreen, hesternal, hesternopothia, pridian, ere, retrophilia, ante mortem and 72 more...
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drspork's Words
solecism, dithyrambic, monomaniac, tautology, perspicacious, novena, chthonian, miasma, provender, carom, fuliginous, protoplasm and 102 more...
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Wordie/Wordnik Curio Cabinet
Oddments culled from my "main" lists that belong in a display cabinet of their own, plus sundry other curiosities. :-)
zeugma, ziggurat, xiphoid, xeric, whizgigging, whangdoodle, viviparous, vivific, vinolent, verjuice, vellicate, velleity and 1193 more...
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lethological cathexis
smeggo's concatenation
saxicolous, sisyphean, sibboleth, sibilance, zetetic, hemidemisemiquaver, quaquaversal, cathexis, floccipaucinihili..., lethologica, bathetic, jactitation and 57 more...
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electriccounterpoint's list
Words I've tried to remember in the past and failed, or words I might want in the future
preprandial, hobson's choice, defenestrate, sähkö, backpfeifengesicht, exegesis, midrash, hrvatska, ljubljana, dirigisme, dirigiste, fatiloquent and 35 more...
Tweets
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smeggo I was thinking of this one not 24 hours ago. Oct 13, 2008
whichbe Pertaining to yesterday. May 12, 2008