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.
| c 1420 Avow. Arth. xlii, Ȝistur euyn I the king hiȝte, To cumme to my mete. c 1440 Partonope 10025 (Univ. Coll. MS.) These twyn that yster even full late Caught the last stroke. c 1450 Merlin 172 Yester even ye sente for vs, and I am now come. ? 1452 Paston Lett. (1897) I. 247 My doughter your wyf told me yester even the man that suyth him will not stonde to your awarde. |
| 1822 Byron Werner iii. iv, The myrmidons..who were Dogging him yester-even. 1840 Talfourd Glencoe ii. i, He has not return'd Since, yestere'en, he left us. 1857 Mrs. Carlyle Lett. II. 313, I had yester-even a presentiment I should die before I got back. 1863 Reade Hard Cash x, ‘When was your last spasm?’ ‘No longer agone than yestereen, ma'am.’ 1880 E. 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.| 1820 Scott Abbot xxxi, To endure the cruel disappointment of yester even. 1888 Stevenson Black Arrow iv. iv, Thy swinishness of yestereven. |
| attrib. 1578 H. Wotton Courtlie Controv. 203 Let vs returne then vnto our yester euen lecture. |