hesternal

English

Etymology

From hestern +‎ -al, from Latin hesternus (“of yesterday”).

Adjective

hesternal

1. (rare) Of or pertaining to yesterday.
   • Lord Lytton

     Every other individual of our party wasted in enervating slumbers, from the hesternal dissipation or debauch.

   • 1814, George Gordon Byron quoted in The Works of Lord Byron, Charles Scribner’s Sons; Volume II., Chapter VIII., page #412:

     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 […]

Coordinate terms

• hodiernal
• nudiustertian

References

• hesternal in The Century Dictionary, The Century Co., New York, 1911