Citations:advesperate

English citations of advesperate

Verb: to draw towards evening

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• 1809, Joseph Hutton, School for Prodigals, published in The English and American Stage, Volume 30:

  See the red gleaming of the western skies, proclaims that day begins to advesperate, and nature to sink into repose!

• 1840, Baker Peter Smith, Trip to the Far West:

  The day advesperated, ere I left the church yard of Tregony; and I pursued, in the shades of evening, my route to St. AUSTLE.

• 1870s, J.E.L. Seneker, edited by Thomas Stone, Frontier Experience, or Epistolary Sesquipedalian Lexiphanicism from the Occident (2008 edited reprint):

  Ultimately, as the day began to advesperate, but prior to the cadence of Phœbus,—with pedal envelopes and the inferior portion of my femoral habiliments subjected to quite an illutation…

• 1874, Kellet Rigbye, The Poetical Works of Kellet Rigbye:

  Then when the day advesperates they meet
  Within some neighbour’s cot to hold debate;
  They talk of village news and future toil,
  And then repair to Slumber’s arms awhile.