English

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 […]

   • 2014, David Odden, "Bantu Phonology", page 27:

     In the simple past and hesternal past (57b), there is an added H on the final vowel (which spreads leftward, when prepausal) and causes deletion of preceding Hs.

Coordinate terms

• hodiernal
• nudiustertian

References

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