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Discuss Email this Feedback RSS/XML Permalink A.Word.A.Day--hodiernal hodiernal (ho-di-ER-nuhl) adjective Of or pertaining to the present day. [From Latin hodiernus, from hodie (today). Also see hesternal (relating to yesterday) and nudiustertian (relating to the day before yesterday).] "Our vernal Brightness keeping, Time outleaping; Passed the hodiernal!" Thomas Hardy; To Outer Nature; 19th c. This week's theme: Words from the 2005 Spelling Bee X-Bonus It is easier to make a saint out of a libertine than out of a prig. -George Santayana, philosopher (1863-1952)

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