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Webster 1913 Edition

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Adj.

[L.

hodiernus

, fr.

hodie

today.]

Of this day; belonging to the present day.

[R.]

Boyle. Quart. Rev.

hodiernal

(rare) Of or pertaining to the current day.
- 1848, Ralph Waldo Emerson, "Circles", in Essays, page 179:
  Literature is a point outside of our hodiernal circle through which a new one may be described.
- 2014, David Odden, "Bantu Phonology", page 27:
  For example, in Kerewe, the remote past and hodiernal perfective in (57a) have whatever H is lexically present on the root (plus Tone Doubling).