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VESTAL.<br />
ipoo Matches, 0.0.0^. 1859 Cornwali.is Panorattta New<br />
ly^rlti I. 326 Wax vesla-s pipes, maccaroni, and candles,<br />
1863 Abkl in Z^*/. (etc.) J'hr'L Mag, Nov. 356 Varieties<br />
of wax or Vesta matches. 1864 Strauss, etc Eng, Worksho^t<br />
^33 The vesta boxes are put in parcels of half-a-dozen<br />
and one dozen. 1886 D,C. Murray tint Person Singular<br />
xix, Frost's trembling fingers had to strike one or two vestas.<br />
1899 T. M. Ellis Three Cat*s-tye Rings (>Z The major pulled<br />
a xesta-case from his pocket.<br />
Vestal (vestal), a. and sb. [ad. L. vestalis^ f,<br />
Vesta Vesta. So Sp. and Pg. vestal^ It. and F.<br />
vestaU,'\<br />
A. adj, 1. Vestal virgin^ one of the priestesses<br />
(originally four, subsequently six in number) who<br />
had charge of the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta<br />
at Ronae.<br />
>43*-So tr. Higden (Rolls) IV. 473 Cornelia, the most<br />
noble of virgynes vestalle, . . was put m to therthe on lyve.<br />
1^33 Reli.endem Lrfy 11. xix. (S.T.S.) 1. 202 pai condampnuOppia<br />
J>e \-irgine vestal for hir Incest. 1600 Hoi.lanij<br />
Lrty I. XX. 14 Numa. .instituted also a Nuntierie as it<br />
were, of religious vestall virgines. Ihid. xxviii. xi. 676<br />
The Vestall virgin who had the charge that night, .was.<br />
throughly skourged. 160a tr. Sailusi 20 Cataline had..<br />
Debauch d a Lady of Noble Extraction, and a Vestal<br />
Virgin. 1710 W. King Heathen Gods ^ Heroes ix. (1722)<br />
26 The Vestal Virgin Claudia, whose, .freedom of Behaviour<br />
had made her Modesty suspected. 1770 Lanciiorne<br />
Plutarch (1851) II. 882/2 What is there in Rome so sacred<br />
and venerable as the vestal virgins who keep the perpetual<br />
fire? 1865 Lecky Ration, (1878) I. 23 'llie miracles which<br />
clustered so thickly around the vestal virgins. 1891 Farrar<br />
Darkn. ^ Daxvn xlix, In defiance of every law. .he had<br />
recently seized Rubria, one of the Vestal Virgins.<br />
160<br />
then depart thence pure Vestals. 1608 Shaks. Per. iv. v. 7<br />
Shall's go hear the vestals sing? 1717 Pope Eloisa to<br />
Abelard 207 How happy is the blameless vestal's lot !<br />
The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 1784 Cowper<br />
Tc^k IV. 554 The stain Appears a spot upon a vestal's robe.<br />
The worse for what it soils. 1848 Ihackerav Van. Fair<br />
X, She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals,<br />
and had been a beauty in her day. 1879 Gladstone Glean.<br />
II. i. 10 He States that he never knew souls more polluted<br />
than those of some of the professed vestals of the Church.<br />
Hence Ve'stalshlp, the state or condition of<br />
being a vestal or virgin,<br />
1893 F, Thompson Poems 42 A mouth too red for the<br />
moon to buss it, But her cheek unvow its vestalship.<br />
t VeBtament, erroneous var. of Vestiment or<br />
Vestment.<br />
z63a Massinger & Field Fatal Do7vty iv. i. H j b, His<br />
vestaments sit, as if they grew vpon him.<br />
Veste, southern ME. var. Fast v. and adv.^<br />
Fist i-^.i<br />
Vested (vested), ///. a. [f. Vest v. + -ed.]<br />
1. Clothed, robed, dressed, spec, in ecclesiastical<br />
vestments. Also^^.<br />
1671 Milton/*.^, l 257 Just Simeon and Prophetic Anna<br />
..spake Before the Altar and the vested Priest. 1769<br />
Goldsm. Des. Vill. 360 The cooling brook, the grassy vested<br />
green. 1841 Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1852) IV. 256 Why<br />
do I not go forth as a forgiven and vested creature. 184a<br />
WoRDsw. Eccles, So/tn. ni. xxvi. The Vested Priest before<br />
the Altar stands.<br />
b. //er. (See quot.)<br />
ri8a8 Bkrry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Vested, habited, or<br />
clothed, as a cubit arm, &c. vested az. or the like.<br />
2. Established, secured, or settled in the hands of,<br />
or definitely assigned to, a certain possessor.<br />
1766 Blackstone Comm. II. i68 K^j/#at ofte tyme a deere is herbored with vestoynge of<br />
mannys eye. Ibid, xxx, If hb lymer be dislaue, late him<br />
vesteye it with his eye. Ibid, xxxiii, And if )>e lymer ouershete,<br />
or kan not put it forth, euery hunter bat ^ere is, ought<br />
to go somedele a broode forto se yf j»ei may fynde Jjc<br />
leghtes with vesteynge of eye.<br />
Vestiarian (vesti|e»'rian), a. [f. Vestiar-y<br />
-t--IAN.]<br />
fuel at all .seasons of the year.<br />
2. A virgin ; a chaste woman ; a nun,<br />
1590 Shaks. Mids. N. \i, i. 158 A certaine aime he tooke<br />
At a faire Vestall, throned by the West. 1593 Nashe<br />
Christ's T. 80 .\ grosse-pencild Painter, who., vnder colour<br />
(rf" drawing of pictures, drawes more to his shady Pauilion,<br />
I<br />
1. Ofor relating to, concerned with, ecclesiastical<br />
vestments or their use.<br />
1850 Marsden Early Purit. (1853) ig The question of<br />
the habits, or as it has since been termed the vestiarian<br />
controversy. 1866 Contemp. Rev. II. 557 The ecclesiastical<br />
Adria, agitated by ritualistic and vestiarian gales, has<br />
thrown up a great heap of pamphlets. x88i Guardian 16<br />
Feb. 2^2/3 We shoula have been well pleased had these<br />
vestiarian differences never found place amongst us.<br />
2. Of, belonging or peculiar to, clothing or<br />
dress ; vestiary. rare~^.<br />
I<br />
VESTIBULARY.<br />
_ 1854 R. H. Patterson Ess. Hist. ^ .-ir/(i862) 34 Whiten,<br />
ing of the seams—a disagreeable vestiarian phenomenon<br />
produced by the surface, or best-coloured portion, of the<br />
cloth being rubbed off.<br />
t Vestiarier. Obs. rare~°. Also vefltyaryer(e,<br />
[t. med.L. v^stidrius sb, Cf, OF. vestiaricur<br />
^^Godef.),] = Vesterer.<br />
c\^ Promp. Parv. 509/1 Vestyarycr [printed -cej (A*,<br />
vestiariere [ii'VwM. MS. vestyarycrej, P. vestyar), r-w//.<br />
arius.<br />
Vestia*rium , rare. [L. vesHdrium, II f. vesti-s<br />
clothes, clothing : sec-ARiUM.] A vestiary, vestry.<br />
185s Thackeray Netvcomes xliv, The chapel by the little<br />
door near to the Vestiarium. il^s Encycl. Brit. I. 13/1<br />
The upper story of the refectory [in a Benedictine abbeyj<br />
is the 'vestiarium*, where the ordinary clothes of the<br />
brethien were kept.<br />
Vestiary (.ve-sti,ari), sb. Forms: 3-6 vestiarie,<br />
4 vestiare, 5 vestyarye, -iarye, 5- vestiary,<br />
[a. OF, vesliarie, vcstiaire^ vestyairCf etc.<br />
(mod.F. vesliaire, = Vr. vesliari, Pg. and It. vesliario)y<br />
or ad. L. veslidriuni clothes-chest, wardrobe,<br />
neut. sing, of vestidrias adj., f. vesti-s clothing,<br />
vesture. Cf. Vestlaky.]<br />
I. 1. A vestry of a church. Now rare or Obs.<br />
cia9o .S". Eng. Leg. I, 455 A lodlich cloth he boujhte for<br />
fif panes J to ^e bischope he gan it bringue. J)e bischop eode<br />
into Jje vestiarie ; is Cope he gan of strepe. 1417-8 Rec.<br />
St. Mary at Hill (1005) 69 For a plomer on Jje vestyarye.<br />
1448 Hen. VI Will in Willis & Clark Cambridge (1886) 1.<br />
354 The vestiarie to be sette oon the north syde of the saide<br />
Quere. 1503 in Blyth Hist. Notices ^ Rec. Fincham (1863)<br />
57 My bodye to be beryed in the vestiary of Sent Martyiis<br />
Chirche. 1551 T. Wilson Logike (1580) 57 b, The Church,<br />
the pulpite, the vestiarie, the chauncell. 16^ 1". Smith in<br />
Phil. Trans. (1697) XIX. 604 Toward one end of the<br />
English Church, just by the Vestiary, 1717 Bailey (vol.<br />
II), Vestiary, a Vestry or Dressing-Koom. 1819 W.<br />
Tennant Papistyy Storm'd (1827) 212 And monie ane that<br />
day did herrie Braw spulyie frae the vestiary. 1841 Greslfv<br />
For. Arden (1842) 61 The service being at length finished,<br />
..he returned to the Vestiary. 1866 Mrs. k. T. Ritchie<br />
Village on Cli_^\\\\, The cure. -walked thiough bis wild<br />
overgrown wilderness to the vestiary.<br />
b. A room or building, esp, one in a monastery<br />
or other large establishment, in which clothes are<br />
kept. Also, a cloak-room (quot. 1893).<br />
^1450 Capgrave Life St. Aug. 41, I haue do mad 50U<br />
clothis & hosyn and schon..whech I wil bat )»ei be kept in<br />
a comon vestiary, )>at euery man may haue part as him<br />
nedith. 1467-8 Rolls 0/ Parlt. V, 596/2 Davy Chirke,<br />
Yoman of oure Vestiarye of oure Houshold, 1706 Phillii-s<br />
(ed. Kersey), Vestiary, a place in a Alonastery, where the<br />
Plonks Cloaths are laid up; the Friers Wardrobe, i860<br />
AiNswoRTH Ovingdenn Grange 157 The room.. being used,<br />
at the present day, as a vestiary. 186a Sir H. Taylor St.<br />
Clement's Eve ji, i, Go to the vestiary, wherein thou'lt find<br />
Provision of all garbs for the masqued ball. 1893 McCarthy<br />
Red Diamonds IL 161 *A11 right,' said Granton,. .turning<br />
to the vestiary for his light overcoat.<br />
fc. (See quot.) Obs."^<br />
1656 Blount Glossogr. (copying Cooper), Vestiary, ,.^<br />
Wardrobe, Press, or Chest, where apparel is laid, iHence<br />
in Phillips, and recent Diets.]<br />
t2. = Vestibule 1. Cf. Vestry i b. Obs. rare.<br />
138a Wyclif Exod. XXXV. 17 The tenlis in the ;atb of the<br />
vestiarie [L. in /oribus vestibuli\. 138J — 2 Sam. xvii. 18<br />
Thei wenten in a swift paase in the hows of a maner man in<br />
Bahuryni, that hadde a pit in his vestiarye.<br />
H. 3. Clothes, dress, garments, rare^^.<br />
1846 Landor Ima^. Conv. \V'k.s. 1. 467/1 1 hy versicoloured<br />
and cloudlike vestuiry, puffed and effuse, rustling and<br />
rolling.<br />
Vestiary (ve'stiiari), a. [ad. L, vestidri-us<br />
see prec. and -aky 1. Cf. obs. V .vestiaire {\Aiiri).'\<br />
Of, i>ertaining or relating to, clothes or dress.<br />
i6» E. MissELDEN Free 7'rade{cd, 2) 109 The Superfluity<br />
of other Commodities may bee restrained by lawes Vestiary<br />
and Sumptuary. 1648 Bp. Hall Select Th. §93, 271 Some<br />
are for manuary trades, . . another for Vestiary services, 1839<br />
Blackiv. Mag. XXV. 346 'Ihe soul may remain the same,<br />
but a new body is actually given to it by the interposition<br />
of vestiary talent. z866 R. CHA.vishRS Ess, Ser. 11. 113 A<br />
collection of vestiary curiosities. 1870 W. R. Greg Polit.<br />
Problems 167 Some vestiary materials have become more<br />
abundant and lower in price. 1891 Han. Lynch 6". Meredith<br />
78 We learn of vestiary elegances, and temper.<br />
Vestible, obs. form of Vestibule.<br />
Vestibular (vesti-bi/Jlaj), a. [f. next + -ab l.<br />
Cf. obs. F. vestibulaire.'\ 0( or pertaining to, of<br />
the nature of, resembling or serving as, a vestibule<br />
: a, Anat. (Cf. Vestibule sb. 2.)<br />
1836-9 Todd's Cyc.l. Anat. II. 537/1 The vestibular part<br />
of the membraneous labyrinth, .is all that is really fundamental<br />
in the structure of an organ of hearing. 1851 Woodward<br />
Mollusca I. (1856) 23 As in the vestibular cavities of<br />
fishes. 187a Huxley Phys. viii,2ii The vestibular nerve<br />
tells us that sounds are weak or loud, but gives no impression<br />
of tone or melody or harmony. x%^ Allbutt's Syit.<br />
Med. VII. 580 The vestibular termination of the auditory<br />
nerve.<br />
b. In general use.<br />
1861 Beresf. Hope Eng, Cathedr. t^th C. 158 The outer<br />
world was fenced off by the interposed atrium or vestibular<br />
cloister.<br />
C. Zool. (See quot.)<br />
1887 Sollas in Encycl. Brit. XXII. 416/1 This pseudostomosis<br />
is due to a folding of the entire sponge, so as to<br />
produce secondary canals or cavities, which may be incurrent<br />
(vestibular) or excurrent (cloacal).<br />
Vesti'bulary a. rare.<br />
1843 in F. H. Ramadge Curab. Consumption (1850) 37
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