| 释义 |
yester-even, yestere'en, adv. and n. arch. and dial.|jɛstəˈriːv(ə)n|
Forms: 5 ȝistir-, ȝister-, ȝistur-, yster-, 5– yester-: see even n.
[f. yester- + even n. Cf. yestreen.]
A. adv. = yester-evening adv.
c1420Avow. Arth. xlii, Ȝistur euyn I the king hiȝte, To cumme to my mete. c1440Partonope 10025 (Univ. Coll. MS.) These twyn that yster even full late Caught the last stroke. c1450Merlin 172 Yester even ye sente for vs, and I am now come. 1452Paston Lett. (1897) I. 247 My doughter your wyf told me yester even the man that suyth him will not stonde to your awarde.
1822Byron Werner iii. iv, The myrmidons..who were Dogging him yester-even. 1840Talfourd Glencoe ii. i, He has not return'd Since, yestere'en, he left us. 1857Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 313, I had yester-even a presentiment I should die before I got back. 1863Reade Hard Cash x, ‘When was your last spasm?’ ‘No longer agone than yestereen, ma'am.’ 1880E. Marshall Troub. Times 295, I did stop yestereven when, in a rage, I was going to strike Lily, for breaking the toy gun James Ellis bought for me.
B. n. = yester-evening n.
1820Scott Abbot xxxi, To endure the cruel disappointment of yester even. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow iv. iv, Thy swinishness of yestereven.
attrib.1578H. Wotton Courtlie Controv. 203 Let vs returne then vnto our yester euen lecture. |