Hesternal

Quick meaning: Hesternal is an adjective meaning (archaic or literary, rare outside grammar) Of or pertaining to yesterday.

Meaning

(archaic or literary, rare outside grammar) Of or pertaining to yesterday.

Example Sentences

The hesternal or 'yesterday', tense differs from the hodiernal in having a tone on the subject prefix.

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.

[A]t laſt, this happy fellow, on a high / Bed laid, and dawbed over with thick ointments, / Extends his rigid heels towards the door; but him / The heſternal Romans, with cover'd head, ſuſtained.

But notwithstanding my cupidity for such dainties, I have that happy adaptation of taste which can banquet, with delight, upon hesternal offals; can nibble ignominious radishes, or masticate superannuated mutton.

Synonyms for hesternal

Depending on context, synonyms include hestern.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include yestern, prehodiernal, hyperarchaic, archaic, archaical, archaistic.

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