English

Adverb

hodiernally ‎(not comparable)

1. In a hodiernal manner; in the present day; today.
   • 1845, The ministers of the Respective Parishes, under the Superintendence of a Committee of the Society for the Benefit of the Sons and Daughters of the Clergy - Willian Blackwood and Sons, Edinburgh and London, The New Statistical Account of Scotland - Volume 15 - Sutherland—Caithness—Orkney—Shetland—General Index, The University of California Press, pages 132 & 159

     There is good reason for believing that, before this period, the Romans had a settlement to the north of the Grampians, of which Pteroton, hodiernally Inverness, was the capital.

     Sometime thereafter, whilst Ronald was on a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, Harold the Wicked, Earl of Orkney, spent the winter at Wick, and was robbed of the rents of his estates in Zetland by Swen the pirate, whose stronghold was at Lambsburgh, hodiernally Buchollie's Castle in Canis- bay, near the northern boundary of the parish of Wick.

   • 1906, Life Magazine - Volume 47, Life Publishing Company - New York, page 429

     Altruistic ancestors with assemblages of vivacious juvenile descendants, gregarioust anticipating jubilation, synchronously and multitudinously circumambulate Madison Square Garden hodiernally.

   • 2005, Manish, The Bees’ Knees - A Memoir, Sepia Mutiny - Powered by WordPress, paragraph 1 - sentence 2

     Venezuela and India dedicate themselves to making globally competitive beauty queens. Hodiernally, what do desi Americans do?

   • 2015, Dormouse559, Forum Post - Re. Romanglic File, The CBB - Discuss Constructed Languages, Cultures, Worlds, Related Sciences and much more!

     Hodiernally, ego noticed present discussion's complete quiet. Novel ideas, compatriots, concerning Romanglic development?

   • 2008, Mariana Vernaschi Silva, Faculdades Integradas - Antônio Eufrásio de Toledo, Presidente Prudente, page 8

     We observe the Jury Tribunal not only on its origin and evolution on the country right and foreign right, but also in relation to the motives that allowed as well as on its purpose, as on the context in which it was created as the role that it develops hodiernally.

   • 2016, Bret G. Linford, The Second Language Development of Dialect-Specific Morphosyntactic Variation in Spanish during Study Abroad, Indiana University Press, page 34

     contexts when the action occurs hodiernally. In Madrid, the same trend occurs except that it also occurs hesternally.

   • 2007, TheStockholmSyndrome, Forum Post - Re. What do you eat...why?, Living and Raw Foods - The Largest Community on the Internet Dedicated to Education the World about the Power of Living and Raw Foods, paragraph 2

     Maybe ideally the whole thing is dynamic, as Bryan says, a constant hodiernally shifting thing depending on what you need today psychologically, emotionally, socially, and physically.

Derived terms

• hodiernal
• hodiern