Obs. Also 5 -stern. [OE. ǽfensteorra, f. ǽfen, EVEN sb. + steorra, STAR; for even-stern cf. ON. aptan-stiarn.] Evening-star.

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c. 888.  K. Ælfred, Boeth., xxxix. § 13. Se steorra ðe we hatað æfensteorra.

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c. 1220.  Bestiary, 766. For he is faier ouer alle men, so euen sterre ouer erðe fen.

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1388.  Wyclif, Job xxxviii. 32. Thou … makist euene sterre … to rise on the sones of erthe.

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1483.  Cath. Angl., 119. The Euenstern, vesperus.

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1552.  Huloet, Euen starre … vesper, vesperugo.

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