a1500 Medulla Gram. (Canterbury) f. 63, in Middle Eng. Dict. (at cited word) Hesternus, falling to ȝester.

a1701 C. Sedley Virgil's Past. vi, in Wks. (1778) I. 307 With fumes of yester's wine the god was doz'd.

1758 J. Hoadly tr. E. Holdsworth in R. Dodsley Coll. Poems V. 263 My very entrails, strait their crude contents Gan gnaw, and through my throat ill-fortified My yester's meal, alas! triumphant drags.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 390 Ornamental printing—the last thing of yester's date.

1903 E. P. Johnson Canad. Born 43 Whence come the vague to-morrows? Where do the yesters fly?

1922 T. Hardy Late Lyrics & Earlier 136 The saps that in their live originals climb; Yester's quick greenage here set forth in mime.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Scotl. ix. 12/1 in R. Holinshed Chron. I We haue such plenty of fishe,..that although Millions..of them be taken on the one day, yet on the next their losse wil so be supplied with new store, that nothing shal be missing by reason of the yesterfang.

1690 J. Dryden Don Sebastian ii. i. 21 To love an Enemy..whom yester Sun beheld, Must'ring her charms.

1725 E. Fenton in A. Pope et al. tr. Homer Odyssey I. iv. 881 When the glimm'ring ray Of yester dawn disclos'd the tender day.

1737 R. Glover Leonidas vii. 31 Opposition more tremendous still And ruinous, than yester sun beheld.

a1889 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1918) 68 Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare Of yestertempest's creases.

1889 Universal Rev. Nov. 427 There all day long my yester journey was.

1919 T. Hardy Coll. Poems 510 Morns would have dawned On the uprooting by the night-gun's stroke Of what the yester noonshine brought to power.

1998 Vancouver Sun 12 Jan. b5/6 Seinfeld is so yester.

1647 A. Altham Let. 17 Jan. in Essex Rev. (1908) 17 134 Sir thomas farfax yester dined at the Tower.

1653 in E. Nicholas Nicholas Papers (1892) II. 6 The other took his advertisement so ill that they were like to have fallen by the ears yester.

1720 C. Morris Diary 4 Jan. (1934) 76 I went to Charles Taylor's..about what I yester endeavour'd to prevail with him to do.

1862 M. A. Byers Jrnl. 23 June in Torn by War: Civil War Jrnl. (2013) 3 Steele's and Osterhaus's divisions left yester and today, I believe it is true. [Editor transcribes as ‘yester[day]’.]

1906 C. M. Doughty Dawn in Brit. I. iii. 144 Her father, king, rode, yester, to green wood.

1934 E. Pound Let. in Poetry (Chicago) (1982) 139 234 The aged Yeats left yester.