Hodiernal

Quick meaning: Hodiernal is an adjective meaning (archaic or literary, rare outside grammar) Of or pertaining to the present day or today; hodiern.

Meaning

(archaic or literary, rare outside grammar) Of or pertaining to the present day or today; hodiern.

Example Sentences

Why not sempiternal / Thou and I? Our vernal / Brightness keeping, / Time outleaping: / Passed the hodiernal!

In truth, a purpose always is fulfill'd, / When hodiernal miracles are will'd; / They still proclaim the Being Personal / Who moves behind accomplishing them all.

Thus to make ſounds, with bold pretence, / Paſs with the gaping croud for ſenſe, / As, deck'd in plumes of gaudy hue, / The jackdaw would be peacock too; / Theſe patch up (well Reviewers know it) / In hodiernal phraſe, a poet.

Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle, through which a new one may be described. The use of literature is to afford us a platform whence we may command a view of our present life, a purchase by which we may move it.

Synonyms for hodiernal

Depending on context, synonyms include current, present-day.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include modern-day, today's, diarian, modern, present-day, hodologic.

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