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First published 2002 (DOST Vol. XII).
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Quotation dates: 1399-1661
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Ȝistrene, Ȝestrene, Ȝestrewine, adv. (n.). Also: ȝystrewine, -ewen, ȝisterevin, ȝestrewen, yesterevin, ȝistrein, -eyn, yistrein, -en, yestren(e, -ein, -een, ȝeistr-, yeistrein, -eyn, the strene, -streen, this strene. [North. late ME ȝhistrewyn (a1400), yistrevyn (c1440), ȝistreuen (c1450); f. ȝister, as in Ȝisterday, -nicht, with Evin n.1 The streen and the (this) strene seem to have arisen from an erroneous analysis of the first element.]
A. adv. Yesterday evening.(a) a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiii 229.
Ȝystrewine wele lat … I tald [etc.] a1400 Legends of the Saints xxiii 356.
This mone my kine gaf me Ȝestrewine a1400 Legends of the Saints xxv 734.
Here thai ware ȝystrewen lat a1400 Legends of the Saints xxxix 358.
In the kirkȝard ȝestrewen wes lad Ane Ethiope 1513 Doug. xii Prol. 212.
Sum rownys to hys fallow … Hys myrry stouth and pastans lait ȝisterevin [Sm., Ruddim. ȝistrene] 1661 Sc. Ant. XXII 252.
If you haid not been at such worke yesterevin as you was at(b) ?1438 Alex. ii 4259.
Ȝistrene lait 1513 Doug. v xi 72.
In my sleip ȝistreyn [Sm. ȝestrene, Ruddim. ȝistrene] The figur of Cassandra … Gave me byrnand fyre brandis 1573 Davidson in Satirical Poems xlii 536.
Quhen thay haue run ouir with ane reill Thair sairles sermone red ȝistrene 1576 Orkney Oppress. 80.
Ȝistrein 1586 Wemyss Corr. 80.
Yistren a1605 Montg. Sonn. xli 1.
So suete a kis ȝistrene fra thee I reft 1614 T. Melvill in Melvill lxxii.
Lait yistrein(c) 1461 Liber Pluscardensis 388.
Lik till a dreme that we had dremyt yeistreyn a1500 Sir Eger 497.
Yestreen a1500 Buke of the Sevyne Sagis 380.
My lord said he forsuth ȝestrene He couth haf spokin 1548 Corr. M. Lorraine 251.
Yestren a1570-86 Maitland Folio MS 442/36.
No warldlie thing sould thé affray … Quhilk thow haid haill & sound ȝeistrein 1583 3rd Rep. Hist. MSS App. 422/2.
Yeistrein 1585–6 Montgomery Mem. 227.
Being yestrein assuredlie informit inwith the nycht of his meitting the Lord Sempill 1626 Mar & Kellie MSS Suppl. 240.
Yestrene lait I contractit a little pane(d) a1500 Sir Eger 1753.
The streen to chamber I him led 15.. Wyf of Auchtirmuchty 92.
The diuill cutt of thair handis … That fild ȝow all sa fow this strene c1590 Fowler I 129/88.
That which long tyme past before or present is in sight, Which was the strene, or yit tomorrow
b. transf. In hyperbolical use: A short time ago.c1540 Lynd. Syde Taillis 65.
Kittok, that clekkit wes ȝistrene The morne wyll counterfute the quene
B. noun. Yesterday evening.1533 Boece 341b.
This day and euer sen ȝistrene in the fore nycht I couth haue na rest
