单词 | yester-evening |
释义 | yester-eveningadv.n. Chiefly poetic and literary (archaic in later use). A. adv. In or during the evening of yesterday; yesterday evening, last night. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [adverb] > yesterday afternoon or last night yesternightOE yestern eveOE tonightc1275 yester-evenc1330 yesterday evening1490 yestreena1500 this hinder nighta1549 yester-eve1565 yester-even1578 yester-evening1598 1598 I. K. tr. A. Romei Courtier's Acad. iv. 130 Yester euening [It. Hieri sera] in fauour of the Queene, to our great benefit and contentment, you made it knowne, that there were two honors. 1609 J. Fenn tr. Raymond of Capua Life Blessed Virgin xxiv. 110 He said. Ah daughter, maie this be the Bull, that I required of you yester euenyng [It. hieri a sera]? 1681 Swearing Master 4 Suppose now..That seven Pilgrims in Buckram, with every one a brown Bill in his Pocket, knock'd thee (or say me) i'th' head yester-evening, about six a clock. 1715 N. Rowe Lady Jane Gray iii. i. 25 This Morn a trusty Spy, Has brought me Word that yester Evening late,..Your Friends were marry'd. a1774 A. Tucker Light of Nature Pursued (1777) III. iv. xxvi. 46 If he be asked why he..played at cards yester-evening, to answer, For the glory of God would be untrue, or if true would be a profanation of his name. 1847 E. Brontë Wuthering Heights II. iii. 44 Yester-evening, I sat in my nook reading some old books, till late on towards twelve. 1889 A. Conan Doyle Micah Clarke vii. 56 Yester-evening I left Monmouth's camp. 1939 Laredo (Texas) Times 2 Aug. 2/3 Ignacia Mogas and Freddie Leyendecker being chaperoned all over town yesterevening by a little friend half their age. 1958 A. Bausani tr. N. Khusraw in East & West 9 153/1 Yester evening my eye was powerless to penetrate in meditation what a cruel fate wanted of me. The evening of yesterday. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > time > relative time > the past > yesterday > [noun] > yesterday night yesternighta1522 yester-even1578 yester-evening1694 yestreen1776 1694 I. Marlow Tract on Sabbath-day vii. 25 Some add Evening, or Yester Evening, which is sometimes put for the whole Night, as in the History of the Creation. 1796 S. T. Coleridge Destiny of Nations 235 Late on the yester-evening. 1808 S. T. Coleridge Let. c16 July (1959) III. 119 The Review was sent, addressed to you, by the Post of yester-evening. 1822 Ld. Byron Werner ii. ii. 74 Me! whom he ne'er saw Till yester' evening. 1853 G. J. Cayley Las Alforjas II. 209 Yester-evening's sunset. 1900 Morning Post 24 Nov. 5/7 Stocks opened irregular, though in many instances at slight advances over yester-evening's close. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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