Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Clothing; apparel.
- n. Something that covers or cloaks: hills in a vesture of mist.
- v. To cover with vesture; clothe.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. Garments in general; especially, the dress or costume worn at one time by any person.
- n. That which invests or covers; covering generally; envelop; integument.
- n. In old law: All, except trees, that grows on or forms the covering of land: as, the vesture of an acre.
- n. Investiture; seizin; possession. Synonyms and See
raiment . - To put vesture or clothing on; clothe; robe; vest.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel; vestment; covering; envelope.
- n. The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which land was covered.
- n. Seizin; possession.
WordNet 3.0
- n. something that covers or cloaks like a garment
- n. a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
- v. provide or cover with a cloak
Etymologies
- Middle English, from Old French, from Vulgar Latin *vestītūra, from Latin vestītus, past participle of vestīre, to clothe, from vestis, garment; see vest.
Examples
“The vesture is a lighter color than the traditional dark purple.”
“By baptism we be regenerate, and when we shall have passed the time of this exile, he shall clothe us of double vesture, that is to wit of body and soul in glory.”
“The spiritual exhilaration by it was mistaken for that caused by new wine (Ac 2: 13-17; Eph 5: 18). belly -- that is, the vesture on it.”
“It is because He wears a vesture dipped in blood, that 'on the vesture is the name written "King of kings, and Lord of lords."”
“Through all the variations in style and genre which this exhibition amply documents, he remains absorbed by the idea that a setting can become a kind of vesture, the vesture project an image, and the image tally uneasily with the human being to whom it is attached.”
“The Carouan being come to Medina two houres before day, and resting there till the euening, the captaine then with his company and other pilgrims setteth forward, with the greatest pompe possible: and taking with him the vesture which is made in maner of”
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation
“So here the blood on His "vesture," reminding us of His own blood shed for even the ungodly who trample on it, is a premonition of the shedding of their blood in righteous retribution.”
“Fichte, in conformity with the Transcendental Philosophy, of which he was a distinguished teacher, declares first: That all things which we see or work with in this Earth, especially we ourselves and all persons, are as a kind of vesture or sensuous Appearance: that under all there lies, as the essence of them, what he calls the 'Divine Idea of the World;' this is the Reality which 'lies at the bottom of all”
Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History
“Larger versions of these photos can be found here, as well a piece including some intriguing photos of Spanish canons in colorful vesture, which can be viewed here.”
“Bishop Hanke also wore the traditional and rarely-seen rationale, an item of vesture discussed here before which, in this form, is a unique privilege of the bishop of Eichstätt.”
The Spiritual Family "The Work," the Bishop of Eichstätt, and the Rationale
Lists
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Mine eyes are filled today with old amaze
At mountains, and at meadows deftly strewn
With bits of the gay jewelry of June
And of her splendid vesture; and, agaze,
I stand where Spring her bright brocade of days
Embroidered o'er, and listen to the flow
Of sudden runlets -- the faint blasts they blow,
Low, on their stony bugles, in still ways.
- Mahlon Leonard Fisher, 'Old Amaze'. Oct 4, 2008
brtom "... not for vengeance to cut off from the living but shrouded in the piteous vesture of the past, silent, remote, reproachful."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14 Jan 27, 2007