Definition of Yestirday
Yes"ter*day (?), n. [OE.
&yogh;isterdai, AS. geostran dæg, from
geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran,
gystran, yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G.
gestern, OHG. gestaron, Icel. gær
yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis to-morrow, L.
heri yesterday, Gr. &?;, Skr. hyas) + dæg
day. Cf. Hestern. &?;&?;&?;&?;.]
1. The day last past; the day next before the
present.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Shak.
We are but of yesterday, and know
nothing. Job viii. 9.
2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long
past.
The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday,
when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs.
Macaulay.
Yes"ter*day, adv. On the day last
past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place
yesterday.
Yes"ter*day (?), n. [OE.
&yogh;isterdai, AS. geostran dæg, from
geostran, geostra, giestran, gistran,
gystran, yesterday (akin to D. gisteren, G.
gestern, OHG. gestaron, Icel. gær
yesterday, to-morrow, Goth. gistradagis to-morrow, L.
heri yesterday, Gr. &?;, Skr. hyas) + dæg
day. Cf. Hestern. &?;&?;&?;&?;.]
1. The day last past; the day next before the
present.
All our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Shak.
We are but of yesterday, and know
nothing. Job viii. 9.
2. Fig.: A recent time; time not long
past.
The proudest royal houses are but of yesterday,
when compared with the line of supreme pontiffs.
Macaulay.
Yes"ter*day, adv. On the day last
past; on the day preceding to-day; as, the affair took place
yesterday.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
YESTERDAY, n. The infancy of youth, the youth of manhood, the entire
past of age.
But yesterday I should have thought me blest
To stand high-pinnacled upon the peak
Of middle life and look adown the bleak
And unfamiliar foreslope to the West,
Where solemn shadows all the land invest
And stilly voices, half-remembered, speak
Unfinished prophecy, and witch-fires freak
The haunted twilight of the Dark of Rest.
Yea, yesterday my soul was all aflame
To stay the shadow on the dial's face
At manhood's noonmark! Now, in God His name
I chide aloud the little interspace
Disparting me from Certitude, and fain
Would know the dream and vision ne'er again.
Baruch Arnegriff
It is said that in his last illness the poet Arnegriff was
attended at different times by seven doctors.
- 1811 Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue
- The day before today.
Yesterday was rainy, but by this morning it had begun to snow.
- The (recent) past, often disparaging.
Yesterday's technology.
- On the day before today
I started to watch the video yesterday, but could only finish the movie this evening.
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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