a. [ad. late L. vespertīnāl-is, f. L. vespertīnus: see next and -AL. Cf. obs. F. vespertinal, -el.] = next.
1839. Fraser’s Mag., XIX. 469. All my troubles, cares, anxieties, perplexities—matutinal, meridional, and vespertinal.
1849. Thoreau, Week Concord Riv., 119. The vespertinal pout had already begun to flit on leathern fin.
1854. Lowell, Cambridge 30 Yrs. Ago, Prose Wks. 1890, I. 90. F. became purely vespertinal, never stirring abroad till after dark.
1901. Athenæum, 28 Dec., 876/3. Vespertinal events … might be dated in Saxon times in four different ways.
