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VESICULI- 156 VESPERTILIONID.
Tro^. Diseases xxxv. 546 There may be evidence hi the
shape of \*e5iculations and thickening of the mucosa of a
greater or less degree of catarrh.
VesiCTlli- (v/si*ki/ni), combining fonn of
Vesiccla, occurring in a few terms, as vesiouli*foroua
a., bearing vesicles; vesi'culiform «.,
resembling a vesicle ; vesiouli'gerousa., vesiculi-
ferous.
1846 Daka Zooph, 135 l^tie inner tentacles clavate_ and
vcsiculigerous. 1850 Mavne Ex^s, Lex. 1330 Vesiculiferom.
"1891 Cent. Diet, s.v., Vesiculiform.
llVesiOTllitia (v/siki/aaitis). Path. [f. VbsiccLA
+ -ms.] Inflammation of a vesicle, esp. of
the seminal vesicles.
1861 BuMSTXAD Ven, Dis. (1879) 183 A case in which
\-esicBHtis terminated in an abscess. iSi^ Buck's Handbk,
Med. Sci. IX. 380/2 In chronic vesiculitis local measures
are of little value.
Vdsioulo- (v/si*ki//b), combining form, on
Greek models, of Vesicula, occurring in a few
terms referring to vesicles in connexion with some
part or thing denoted by the second element, as
resutth-brofukiait -spinal^ -tympanitic,
i88< EncycL Brit. XIX. 35/2 Ano-spinal and vesiculospinsil
centres. 1886 Buck's Handbk. Med. Set. II. 82/1 In
emphysema a characteristic sound, somewhat less resonant,
is heard, which is called vesiculo-tympanitic. 1898 Allbutt's
Sysi. MeiL V. 98 Mingled with this diminished dulness and
with ' the vesiculo-bronchial ' breathing, ..may be heard an
adventitious murmur.
VesiculOSe (v^'sikirfW-s), a. [ad. L. vestculos-us
full of blisters : see Vesicula + -OSE.] Full
of vesicles ; vesicular.
^ 1817 KiRBV & Sp. EntomoL II. 223 The elytra.., shrewd,
ing its vesiculose abdomen, gave it much the appearance
of a fine flower. 1856 \V. CuvRK Van der HoevctCs Zool.
I. 332 Abdomen inflated, vesiculose. 1861 Hagen Synopsis
NeuroPtera N, Atner. 171 Abdomen compressed at base,
vesiculose, triquetral.
Hence Tesicnlcso-, employed as
form, as vesiculoso-cellular adj.
a combining
i8a6 KiRBY & Sp. EntomoL IV. xxxviti. 69 In Sphinx
Ligustri the bronchix terminate in oblong vesiculoso.
cellular bodies, almost like lungs.
t Vesi'culous, a. Obs. [f. Vesicul-a + -ous.
So F. vhiculeux. ] = Vesiculose a,
1698 Phil. Trans. XX. 119 The vesiculous Parts of the
Body; which, according to my Notion, are part Muscles,
part Glands. 171a tr. Pomet « Hist. Drugs I.
Kind covers a Vesiculous Substance.
Vesigh, obs. form of Vizy sb. Sc.
150 This
t Ve'Sike, Obs, Also 6 vesyko, visyko. [ad,
L. !»«/*« Vesica.] a. The bladder, b. A bladderlike
vessel or formation ; a vesicle.
15A0 R. Jonas Birth Man. i. 14 b, Sometyme the vesyke
or bladder, .be also apostumat & blystered, 1545 Raynald
Byrth Mankyndi p. i, Yf . . the visyke or bladder be swollen
or encombred with the stone. 1548-77 Vicary Anat. viii.
(i883) 71 The chest of the Gal., is as a purseorapannicular
vesike in the holownesse of the Lyuer.
Vesir, obs. form of Vizier.
Vesper (ve*sp3i). Also 7//. vespre«. [Partly
a. L. vesper masc. (hence OF. vespre^ older F.
vepre^ Pr. vespre, Sp. vespero, Pg. vespera. It. vesperOj
vespfo)^ evening star, evening, cognate with
Gr, tffwfpos Hesperus, Partly ad. older F. vespres
(mod.F. v^pres\ vespers, evensong, ad. L. vesperas
(nom. vesperx)^ ace pi. of vespera fern, ; hence
also Pr. vespras^ Sp. visperas^ Pg, vesperas. For the
use of the plural form cf. matins^ nones."]
I. In the singular form.
1. poet, (or rhiet.). With capital. The evening
star ; Hesper, Hesperus.
1390 GowER Con/.\\. log Whan that thi liht is faded And
Vesper scheweth him alofVe. 1508 Dunbar Goid. Targe 2
Ryght as the stern of day begouth to schyne, Quhen gone
to B;d war Vesper and Lucyne, 1 raise. 1577 Grangk
Golden Aphrod.^ etc. R iij b, Phebus . . His course was done,
& Vesper she with Luna playde their |)artes. 1503 G,
JPeele Hon. Order Garter B j, About the time when Vesper
in the West Ganset the euenin^ watch. 1633 P, Fletcher
Purple Isl. v. Ixx, Vesper fair Cynthia ushers, and her
train, See, th* apish earth hath lighted many a starre. 1697
Dbyden yirg. Georg. i. 343 Red Vesper kindles there the
tapers of the night, 176a Falconer Shipivr. 1. 657 While
glowing Vesper leads the starry train. iSso Keats Ode to
Psyche 27 Fairer than Phccbe s sapphire-region 'd star, Or
Vesper, amorous glow-worm of the slcy.
trans/. 1815 Shelley Adonais xlvi, Assume thy winged
throne, thou Vesper of our throng I
2. Evening, eventide ; an evening. A\so personif.
Now rare or Obs.
1606 Smaks. Ant. 4- CI. IV. xiv. 8 Thou hast scene these
Signes, They arc blacke Vespers Pageants. 1613 Purchas
Pilgrimage {1614) 123 From which ninth houre the lewes
began their Vespera or Euening...In these Vespers, as
also on the Euen of euery Feast and Sabbath, atter the
euening sacrifice, they which doe any worke. .shall neuer
see good signe of a blessing. 171a Buixjell Spect. No. 425
f 3 The one [companion] waa Aurora . . : The other was Vesper
in a Robe of Azure beset with Drops of Gold. 1798 Cole*
VLiooK. An£. Mar. 76 In mist or cloud, on mast or shroud,
It perched for vespers nine. 1849 Thoreau IVeek Concord
Riv. 26 From highest noon till the red vesper sinks into
the west.
Jig. 1701 Nobris Ideal World i. iii. 160 There cannot be
anv vespers in the great sun of truth.
3. Vespers, evensong. (See 6.) Also trans/, f In
early tjse with a or the.
1636 Ma.s51ngbr Bash/. Lover 1. i. If you miss him when
She goes to the vesper or the matins, hang nie ! 1657
THOvi.Khv.vir.Lougur Daphiis f^ Chioe h.\iy\i,\ will tell you
a storie, one I had at a Tavern vesper. 1737 Ozcirs Rabelais
I. xl. 315 A Mass, a Matine, a Vesper well sun^ is half said.
1815 Shelley Alastor 694 Mighty Earth I'rom sea and
mountain, city and wilderness, In vesper low or joyous
orison. Lifts still its solemn voice. 1844 Metn. Babylonian
Princess II. 309, I knew that many of those with whom I
was acquainted attended mass and vesper at this chapel.
4. ellipt. The vesper-bell.
1808 Scott Martnion 11. xxxiii, Even in the vesper's
heavenly tone, They seem'd to hear a dying groan. 1817
MooRE Lalla R., Paradise f,- P. 440 But, hark ! the vcspei
calls to pray'r.
II. In collective pi. Vespers.
t6, a. In Univ. use: The public disputations
and accompanying ceremonies which immediately
preceded the inception or commencement of a
Bachelor of Arts ; esp. in later use at Oxford, the
day on which these were held, the eve ^the Act.
Cf. Vespery. Obs,
157^ M. Stokys in Peacock Stat. Cambr. (1841) App. A.
p. xxii, The Bedyll shall bryng the Inceptours in Arte to
the Place where the commensement shall be kepte, and so
shall begynu the Vespers in Arte and in Civill. Ibid, p. xxiv,
The Father in Arte m the Ve[s]pers shall sytt in the West
ende off the Chyrche. 1657 Owen Vind. Treat. Schism \.
Wks. 1855 Xlll. 217 A learned gentleman, whom I had prevailed
withal to answer in the Vespers of our Act, sent me
his questions. 1681 Grew Musxunt iv. il. 361, I read
two Publique Lectures at Oxford, on the Vespers of the
Publique Act. 1715 Hearne Collect. (O.H.S.) V. 93 Lectures
in the Vespers. The Vespers on Saturday.
fb. The eve of^ festival, or ^the Passion.
16*9 Donne Serm. 73 What a dimme Vespers of a glorious
festivall. x66o Jer, Taylor Worthy Commun. i. § 3. 49 The
Sacrament of the Lords Supper ..being instituted in the
vespers of the passion. 1663 — Serin, t Cor. xv. 2J, 33
And as the Apostles in the vespers of Christs passion, so he
in the Eves of his own dissolution was . . heavie unto
death. 1607 Burghope Disc. Relig. Assemb. 132 Our blessed
Lord in the vespers of his death.
6, Eccl, The sixth of the Canonical Hours of the
breviary, said or celebrated towards evening ; —
Evensong i ; also, the time of this office.
Usually without article, but occas. with the, and sometimes
with a smg. verb.
«6ii CoRVAT Crudities 14, I came into their Church at
the time of prayers in the afternoone, the Nunnes being
then at their Vespers. X644 in Eng. Hist. Rev. Apr. (1913)
341 The parish Church in Ruell where the King and Queene
were at Vespres. 170a in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. VII. 127
Afternoon we went to Vespers to ye Abbay of S' Floraux,
a Benedictine Order. C1731 Diary Blue Nuns Ibid. VIII.
92 About three a clock in the afternoon whilst we were at
vespers. 1756 tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 19 On Ascension-eve,
vespers are performed with great pomp and splendor.
1831 G. Downes Lett. Conf. Countries I. 34, 1 stopped
to attend vespers at the Cathedral of St. Denis. 1871 Miss
MuLOCK Fair Prance xv. 142 Vespers is, I conclude, a litany
rather than a mass. 1884 F. M. Crawford Rom. Singer I.
•24 Then we went into the Capella del Coro to wait for the
vespers.
t b. Applied to the Evening Prayer or Evensong
of the Church of England. Obs. tare.
x66o Pepvs Diary 2 Oct., At Will's I met with Mr. Spicer,
and with him to the Abbey to see them at vespers.
O, With distinguishing terms denoting special
forms of this office.
Sicilian vespers: see Sicilian a. 2 a.
a 1700 in Cath. Rec. Soc. Publ. IX. 368 At y» first vespers
of y» Assomption of o' Blessed Lady. 1761 Evening-Office
0/ Church (ed. 2) 300 In the second Vespers, is a commemoration
of S. Paul. Ibid. 363 After Benedicamus Domino,
the Vespers of the Dead are said. 1908 Ch, Times 13 Mar.
3^7/2 Vesi>ers for the Dead, in the form sanctioned by
Bishop Creighton, was sung,
d. poet. Evening prayers or devotions.
1814 Shelley in Dowden Li/e{\^^^') 1. 496 Adieu; remember
love at vespers before sleep, I do not omit my prayers.
i8ao Keats Eve St. Agnes xxvi, Her vespers done. Of all
its wreathed pearls her hair she frees.
7. trans/. The evening song of a bird. Cf.
Evensong a. Chiefly /^^Z.
1678 H. Vaughan Pious Th. 225, I heard last May.. The
pleasant Philomel her vespers sing. 1795-18x4 Wordsw.
Excurs. IV. 1 169 If the solemn nightingale bt; mute, And the
soft woodlark here did never chant Her vespers. 18x3 Scott
Rokeby v. ii, Hoarse into middle air arose The vespers of
the roosting crows. 1854 Thorkau Walden iv. (1884) 135
The whippoorwills chanted their vespers for half an hour.
HI. 8. attrib. a. In the sense * of or belonging
to, used at or for, vespers or evensong *, as vesper'
beil, -carol, -chinu, -hymny Hght, psalm, -song^ etc.
vesper-book (also + vespers book), a vesperal ;
vesper music (see quot.) ; vesper service,
vespers, evensong.
In general use freq. pas--ing Into next.
1794 Mrs. Raucliffe Myst. Udolpho xxxvi. The monastery,
whose *vesper-bell she had heard on the preceding
evening.^ 1844 Dtckens Pictures/rom Italy (Collins) 244
To the ringing of vesper-bells, darkness sets in. 1864 Skeat
Uhlands Poems 223 The sun sinks down, the vesper-bell
bids men to rest and pray. 177a in Catholic Records
Soc. Publ. I. 138, 4 Vols: of Mass Books,.. *Vesperse Book.
1850 {title)., Vesper-Book; containing the complete Order
for Vespers for the entire Year, according to the Roman
Breviary. 1865 Pall Mall G. No. 140. 3/1 The vesperbook
used by Roman Catholics. i8t8 Keats Endym. iv.
834 Therefore for her these *vesper-caroIs are. a 1835 Mrs. ,
Hemans My own Portrait Poems (1875) 487 Even as a
sound of "vesper-chimes Can wake departed things. x8o8 j
Skurrav Bidcombc Hill 7 The blackbird from tiie ivied
temple chants His *vesperhymn. i866Engel A^i^/. V^auiV
viii. 281 The Roman Catholics., have their Vesper Hymns,
and the singing of these appears to be custoniarjj in most
countries where the Roman Catholic faith prevails. 1892
Ch. Times ^ Nov. 1094/2 An oaken altar.. with *vesper
lights. 1888 Jacobi Printers' Voc. 151 *P'esper music,
plain chant or Gregorian music is thus designated. 1813
Mrs. Hemans Vespers 0/ Palermo in. iii, Here.. meet
me, when the bell Doth sound for "vesper-prayer I 1896
SwETE Ch. Serv. 62 The *vesper Psalms were five in number,
recited as at Mattins in regular course, 1797 Mrs.
Raihjmffe Italian vi, The *vesper-service of the monks.
184^ Dickens Mart. Chuz, v, The old cathedral bell began
to ring for vesper service. 1904 Wordsw, & Littlehales
Old Service Bks. 79 The Kvensong or vesper service of
Sunday and other days of the week. 1810 Scott Lady oj
Lake in. xxiii. To-morrow eve.. My *vcsper song [may
be] thy wail, sweet maid ! 1871 Longf. Wayside Inn n.
Baron St. Castinc 169 No day is so long But it comes at
last to vesper-song. 1813 Scott Triertn. 1. i. Holy as hermit's
*vesper strain. x866 Neale Sequences ^^^ 385 These vespertilios .
hang in swarms upon the boughs of Trees.
Vespertiliouid, a. Zool. [ad. mod.L. Vespcrtilionid'm
(see def.).] Of or belonging to the
Fespertilionidx^ a large family of insectivorous
bats, including the common British species.
1875 Dallas in Cassell's Mat. Hist. I. 332 The tail traverses
the interfemoral membrane in the fashion of that of
a Vespertilionid Bat.