yester-
in comb. or as prefix = immediately preceding the present, last, in yestereve, etc., after yesterday, yesternight; e.g. yester-afternoon, yester-age, yester-noon, yester-tempest, yester-week. See also yester-year.
| 1806 Coleridge Let. to D. Stuart 18 Aug., I..have found myself so unusually better ever since I leaped on land *yester-afternoon. |
| 1870 Swinburne Ess. & Stud. (1875) 97 A poet of the first order..puts the life-blood of an equal interest into Hebrew forms or Greek, mediæval or modern, yesterday or *yesterage. |
| 1855 Hyde Clarke Dict., *Yester-noon. 1872 M. Collins in Frances Collins M.C., Lett. etc., (1877) I. 106, I saw some swallows yesternoon at the parsonage. |
| 1888 G. M. Hopkins Poems (1967) 105 Delightfully the bright wind boisterous ropes, wrestles, beats earth bare Of *yestertempest's creases. |
| 1839 Mrs. Browning Rom. Page xii, The lady Abbess dead before it, And the chanting nuns whom *yester-week Her voice did charge and bless. |