vespertinaladj.
/vɛspəˈtʌɪnəl/ = vespertine adj.
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the world > time > day and night > day or daytime > evening > [adjective]
vespertinec1503
acronic1565
acronical1585
vesperal1623
chronical1647
cronicall1647
vespertinal1839
post-cenal1848
after-supper1879
1839 Fraser's Mag. 19 469 All my troubles, cares, anxieties, perplexities—matutinal, meridional, and vespertinal.
1849 H. D. Thoreau Week Concord & Merrimack Rivers 119 The vespertinal pout had already begun to flit on leathern fin.
1854 J. R. Lowell Cambr. 30 Years Ago in Prose Wks. (1890) I. 90 F. became purely vespertinal, never stirring abroad till after dark.
1901 Athenæum 28 Dec. 876/3 Vespertinal events..might be dated in Saxon times in four different ways.
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adj.1839