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VESTMENT. 163 VESTRY.
f 1866) 35 Itsm iij vestements— sold to Christopher Baud wine
in anno 1565 who haihe put them to prophane vse.
fi. c^ 1440 rrontp. ParxK 509/1 Vestment.., z'estimenfum.
^1460 FoRTEScuE Alfs. ^ Lim. Mon. \\\. {1885) 125 Often
lytnes he [the king] woU bie riche hangynges and other apparetl
for his howses; vessaill, vcstmentes, and ober ornamentes
for his chapelt. 1509 Will in Archaeologia LXVI,
312 A payre of Vcstmentes of Whit clothe ofgold of Tissue.
1531 Test. Ebor. (Surtees) VI, 23. Item, I will that a vestment
be maide..Qf my daqiaske gowne. ^ 1580 Parsons
xnRelig. Pamphlets {.iZi)'^) 166 For this Sacrifice was Preistes
apparell made : Vestments, Sensors, Frankensence, and the |
lyke. 1600 Fairfax Tasso xi. xiv, In costly vestments
Wiliiam dight, With fear and trembling to the altar
went. 1687 A. LovELLtr. Thez'enot's Trav, i. 82, I shall not
here spend time in describing their way of celebrating Mass,
. .nor shall I speak of their Sacerdotal Vestments. 178a in
J. H. Harting Hist. Sardm. Chapel (1905) 25 Priest's vestment,
two dalmatics to correspond, with maniples and stoles
[etc.]. 1797 Mrs. Radcliffe Italian xvi, Your years, old
man, and those sacred vestments protect you. 1816 Scott
Antiq. xxv, .Another churchman in his vestments bore a
holy-water sprinkler. 1867 Trollope Chron. Barset II.
xlix. 59 He bad kept his surplice in his own room, and had
gone down in his vestment. z88i A. O'Shaughnessy Christ
xvill Return^ Songs of Worker 10 And where, 'mid all the
glory Of vestments rich, are Joseph's working coat And
Mary's rags?
3. trans/. and_/?^. Something which covers as a
garment ; a covering.
1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 11 8/2 Ryght so the majeste of god
hydde the lyght of hys dyuynyte by a carnal vestement
whyche he toke of our nature humayne. i6so Quari.es
Jonah 1300 Their nakednesse with sackcloth let them hide,
And niue the vest'ments of their silken pride. 1660 Shar-
ROCK Vegetables 40 The verdure, .that is generally the
beauteous vestment of all vegetables. 1669 W. Simpson
Hydrol. Ckym. 146 This hidden spirit.. putting on new
shapes according to the mineral vestment wherewith he is
cloathed. 1753 Hogarth Anal. Beauty x\.%^ Green,, .which
colour nature hath chosen for the vestment of the earth.
1836 Emerson Mature, Lang, Wks. (Bohn) II. 152 A
material image .. arises in his mind, contemporaneous with
every thought, which furnishes the vestment of the thought.
1841 W. A. Butler Serin. Ser. i. x. (1849) 172 His perpetuated
humanity is, then, in heaven,, .the vestment of the
divine priesthood.
4. Contb. in vestment-maker.
Freq. in 15th and early i6th c accounts.
1405 Close Roll, 6 Hen, IV, b, Johannes Est, vestment
makere. 1477-9 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 80 Item, paid
to a vestment -maker for the mendyng of the Blak Copes.
1530 PAt.scR. 284/2 Vestmentmakcr, chasublier. 1537-8
Rec. St. Mary at //ill {190^ 378 Paid to a vestment maker
for xxvij dayes labour.
Ve'Stment 2. rart-^. [f. Vest v. Cf. Investment.]
A right or privilege with which a person
or body is invested or endowed.
1795 J. Phillips Hist. Inland Navig. Add. 149 It is en-
acted, that they be one body politic and corporate, by the
name of ' The Company of Proprietors of the Mersey and Irwell
Navigation ', with all customary powers, vestments, &c.
Ve'stmental, a. rarc'^. [f. Vestment i +
-AL. Cf, Vestimental a.] Vestimentary.
1849 Rock Ch. 0/ Fathers II. vi. 249 Amongst the few
episcopal ornameius still to be found in England., is one of
the * caligae ', or vestinental stockings of Bishop Waneflete's,
Ve'Stmented, a. [f. as prec] a. Of persons
: Dressed or robed in vestments, b. Of a
service : Celebrated or conducted in vestments.
1859 Sala Tiv. round dock (1861) 338 The black-vestmented
groom of the chambers. 1867 ^st Rep. Comniissioners
i'ubl. Worship 52/1 From your changing the service
from the high choral to the vestmentcd service. 1871 Miss
MuLocK Fair France 143 There came filing in a Hnc of
priests richly vestmented.
VeBtni, southern ME. var. F.xsten v. Vestorie,
obs. f. VestryI. Vestour, var. Vousteb,
boaster. Sc, Vestoure, obs. form of Vesture.
Vestoy, var. Vesteye v. Obs.
Vestral, Vestrical,
see after VaSTRY 1.
Vestrlfieation, etc.
Vestry 1 (vcstri). Forms: 4, 6 westre, 6
vestre ; 5 vestri, 5-6 vestrye, 6-7 veatrie (6
vestorie, 7 veaterie), 5- vestry. [Prob. a. AF.
*v€sl{e)rie, f. Vest v. + -,e)by, substituted for OF.
vestiari€y vestiaire : see Vestiary. Cf. Revestby.]
1. A room or part of a church, usually situated
in close proximity to the chancel or choir, in which
the vestments, vessels, records, etc., are kept, and
in which the clergy and choir robe for divine service
; a room usetl for similar purposes in connexion
with any church, chapel, or place of worship.
The vestry of parish churches is also u in the sayd
westre. 14.. in Wr -Wvilcker 619 Vestihulum, a vestrye.
c 1440 Promp. Parr. 509/3 Vestrye, vesiiarium. 1496-7
Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 225 Kor cblys to brenne in
the vestrye. 1506-7 Ibid. 261 Payd for makyng of ij keyes
for the tresory chest in the vestry, vid. 1540-1 in Archaeo*
logia XIX. 272 On the South Syde of the same Churche
ys the Vestrye well covered with lead^ 1593 Rites 0/ Durham
(Surtees, 1903) 8 When the nionkes went to say or
singe the high masse they put on theire vestments.. in the
Vestrye. 1617 Morvson Itin. 1. 110 In the Vesterie lie the
bodies of nine kings in coffins of wood. 168a N. O. Boileau's
Lntrin 111. 35 With equal pace the Temples Nave they
measure ! Into the Vesiry came; Here lies the Treasure 1
i&^ T. Feoger Voy. 1 1 1 The Jesuits are very potent there.
. . Their Vestry is one of the most magnificent that ever was
Seen. 1756-7 Keysler's Trav. (1760) III. 73 Formerly, in
the Tribuna hung a large picture of St. Joseph ; . . but this is
removed into the vestry. 1796 Mme. D'Arblav Camilla
I. 303 ihey sauntered about the church while the Doctor
retired to the vestry to take off his gown. 1798 Southey
Surgeon's Warning xxiii. Three men in the vestry watch
To save him if they can. 1837 I^'ckens Pickm. xxviii.
The ceremony was performed .. in the parish church,, .and
Mr. Pickwick's name is attached to the register, still preserved
in the vestry thereof. 1864 A. McKay //«/. Kilmar.
nock 225 The church consists of a nave with an organ -gallery,
a chancel, and a vestry. 1873 Hale In His Name viii. 73
Candles which furnished the light to the dim vestry.
fig. 1648 Milton Observ. Art. Peace Wks. 1851 IV. 572
So that this rough Garment to deceive, we bring ye once
again. Grave Sirs, into your own Vestry. 1847 Emerson
Repr. Men, StvedenborgVIV%. (Bohn) 1. 324 The worshipper,
escaping from the vestry of verbs and texts, is surprised to
find himself a pa^ty to the whole of his religion.
b. A similar room or part in a temple or other
non-Christian place of worship.
153s CovERDALE 2 Kings X. 22 Then sayde he vnto him
that had the rule of the vestrye: Brynge forth rayment for
all Baals mynisters. 1584 B. R. tr. Herodotus i. 57 In this
sacred house or vestry no image is erected. 1609 Bible
(Douay) £zek. xliv. 19 They shal put of from them their
vestiments..and shal lay them up in the vesterie of the
sanctuarie. 1641 Milton Reforjn. i. Wks. 1851 III. 2 In
Palls and Miters, gold and guegaw's fetcbt from Arons old
wardrope, or the Flamins vestry.
C. A place or room where clothes (f or valuables)
are kept ; a robing room, cloak-room ; f ^
treasure house or chamber. Now rare.
1574 HELLOWEs(7K^«ara'j Fant. Ep, (1577) 263 Also they
make report of your Ladyship here, that you entred the
vestorie or treasure house of Toledo, to fetche the plate that
was there. 1600 Holland Livy xxix. xxi. 725 For alt the
holy money which they found . . they bestowed againe in the
privie vestries where the treasure was kept. 1613 T. Godwin
Rom. Antiq. (1625) log By the Scene in this place, I vnderstand
the partition betweene the players vestry, and the
stage or scaffold. 1684 Bunvan Pilgr. 11. (1900J 192 Then
said the Interpreter again to the Damsel that waited upon
these Women, Go into the Vestry and fetch out Garments
for these People. 1891 G. Gissing New Grub Street I. 198
Where are your out-of-door things? I think there is a
ladies' vestry somewhere isn't there ?
2> In English parishes : An assembly or meeting
of the parishioners or a certain number of these,
held usually in the vestry of the parish church, for
the purpose of deliberating or legislating upon the
affairs of the parish or upon certain temporal
matters connected with the church (see next).
Also without article (^).
(«> 1589 R. Harvey PL Perc. (1590) 24 This worke being
finished and red ouer and ouer by the bead of the parish,
they called a Vestry, wherin they concluded [etc.]. 1596 in
W. H. Hale Prtc. Causes Office (1841) 87 That they cause
a vestrye to be warned on Sondaye next.. to mete at the
evening the same daye. 1640 Minutes Archdeaconry 0/
Essex (MS.) fol. 195 William Petchie..notatur for keeping
a private vestry in Rookitt's hall on Easter Munday in
tyme of divine service. 164s Sir E. Dering Sp, on Relig.
90 1'be Parish Minister to hold weekly Vestries, a 1700
Evelyn Diary 6 Nov. 1692, There was a Vestry call'd about
repairing or new building of the Church. 1762 Foote
Orator \. Wks. 1790 I. 194, 1 did speechify once at a vestry.
1885 Encycl. Brit. XVIII. 296/3 Common vestries aie meetings
of all the ratepayers, assembled on a three days' notice.
(p) 1764 in W. Wing Ann. Steeple Aston (1875) 63 It was
agreed at vestry to sow Sandhill tumoops this next year.
1845 Stephen Comm. Laws Eng. (1874) I. 120 The affairs
of a parish.. are regulated in vestry, wliich is, properly
speaking, an assembly of the minister, churchwardens and
parishioners. 1857 Hughes Tom Brown i. iii, He himself
had. .gone birds'-nesting with the farmers whom he met at
vestry.
b. The body of parishioners meeting in this
way and constituting a parochial board or council
of management.
l*his body had formerly the admini.stration and management
of the whole of the business affairs of the parish ; but
now its authority is almost entirely restricted to certain
temporal matters connected with the parish church, its
former powers being invested in the Parish or District
Council.
a 167a M. Wren in Gutch ColL Cur. I. 229 It was very
difficult to find a man, who .. followed the persuasion of
Calvin, who had not also strong propensions to the Eldership
and Vestry, a 1700 Evelyn Diary 6 Apr. 1662, Being
of the Vestry,.. we order'd that the Communion Table
should be set as usual altar-wise. 1708 Swift Reply to
Bickerstaff detected S.'s Wks. 1755 II. i. 167 If I had not
used my utmost interest with the vestry. 1766 Entick
London IV. 45 The vestry is select, pursuant to the will of
William Tudman, who, hoping thereby to prevent the inconveniences
which usually arise from a general vestry
[etc.]. 179a Young Trav. France 549 The first attempt
towards a democracy in England would be the common
people demanding an admission and voice in the vestries.
i8ao SnuTHEY iVesley II. 402 As the vestry would not be
persuaded to erect a gallery, he built one at his own expense.
188a Besant Revolt of Man iv. (1883) 78 The Lower
House.. had degenerated into Something noisier than a
vestry. i88a Encycl. Brit. XIV. 820/1 The vestries and
district boards are entrusted with the management of local
sewers, the lighting, paving, and cleaning of their own
thoroughfares, and the removal of nuisances.
O. Any similar body elected by members of the
congregation of a church and invested with the
conduct of its business affairs ; a meeting of such
body. 1891 Cent. Diet
\ 3. Clothing or vesture. PCii,ofig. Obs. rare.
1606 J. Welsh in Sel. Biog. (Wodrow Soc.) 1 . 22 She shall
be arrayed with the golden vestry, and needlework of his
manifold graces. 1616 B. Jonson Masques, Love freed
\ />"• Ignorance, One o* the Black-guard had his hand in my
vestrie.
4. attrib, and Comb. a. In sense i, as vestry
door, fire J -keeper, window, etc.
1477-9 Rec. St. Mary at Hill (1905) 81 A key to the
vestry dore beneth. 1510 in Willis & Clark Cambridge
(1886) II. 200 The largienge of the vestrie dore. i6xx
CoTGR., Sacristain, a Sexton, or Vestrie-keeper, in a
Church. 1670 G. H. Hist. Cardinals \. iii. 75 They are
Qblig'd . . to give to the Popes Vestry-keeper . . f^ve and
twenty Ducats. 1706 PHiLLii'S(ed. KerseyJ, Vestry- Keeper,
a Sexton, whose Business is to look after the Vestry. 177a
ir. Life Lady Guion II. s, I had taken the office of Sacristan
(or Vestry Nun) and the care of waking the Sisters at the
hour they were to rise. 1844 Dickens Mart. Ckuz. xxxi,
I have left the vestry window unfastened. 1855 — Dorrit
xiv, Having stirred the Vestry fire, he looked round the
shelves of registers.
b. In sense 2, as vestry assessment, -brother,
-business, -consult ( = consultation), meeting, etc.
1631 T. Powell Tom All Trades (1876) 139 Like a Reuerend
vestry wit. 1683 N. O. Boileau's Lutrin i. 224 Him
time preferr'd. . From poor Church- warden to a Vestrybrother,
a 1683 Oldham Satyrs Wks. (1686) 194 At Vestry-
Consults when he does appear For choosing of some Parish
Officer. X75X Genii. Mag.l. 159 In the Parish where I serve,
the Vestry is compos'd of thirty select Members, besides the
Rector, and two Vestry Justices of the Peace, a 1734 North
Exam. 11. v. § 94 (1740) 374 No more of Plot than a Vestry
Meeting to settle their Rates. 1808 Edin. Rev. XII. 509
.\n imperial sovereign summoned to settle a petty vestrysquabble
! 1833 Act 2 & A ^ii^- ^^f c. 37 §63 Such Expences.
.as have beenneietofore defrayed by Vestry Assessment
in Ireland. 188S W. Morris in Mackail Ljfe (1899)
II. 206, 1 don't see why they should not keep out of the
vestry-business.
C. Special Combs. : vestry-book, (a) a book
in which the proceedings of a parochial vestry are
recorded ; (b) a book kept in a vestry in which the
births, marriages, and deaths of the parishioners
are registered ; vestry cess, in Ireland, a church
rate or tax levied by a vestry ; vestry-clerk, the
clerk of a parochial vestry ; vestry -tax, = vestry-
cess.
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