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nudiustertian

adjective /n(j)ʊdi.əsˈtɜʃɪən/

  1. Of or relating to the day before yesterday; very recent.

    obsolete, rare

    [W]hen I heare a nugiperous Gentledame inquire vvhat dreſſe the Queen is in this vveek: vvhat the nudiuſtertian faſhion of the Court; I meane the very nevveſt: vvith egge to be in it in all haſte, vvhat ever it be; I look at her as the very gizzard of a trifle, the product of a quarter of a cypher, the epitome of nothing, fitter to be kickt, if ſhee vvere of a kickable ſubſtance, than either honoured or humoured.

Where it comes from

From Latin nū̆diū̆stertiānus (“taking place the day before yesterday”), from nudius tertius. Coined by Nathaniel Ward (1578–1652) in The Simple Cobler of Aggawam in America (1647).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry nudiustertian (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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