Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more.
- noun Biology A rudimentary or degenerate, usually nonfunctioning, structure that is the remnant of an organ or part that was fully developed or functioning in a preceding generation or an earlier stage of development.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A footprint; a footstep; a track; a trace; hence, a mark, impression, or appearance of something which is no longer present or in existence; a sensible evidence or visible sign of something absent, lost, or perished; remains of something passed away.
- noun In biology, any vestigial organ or tissue, having little or no utility, but corresponding to a useful part existing in some lower animal. See
vestigial and rudiment, 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.
- noun (Biol.) A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed part or organ which has been more fully developed in some past generation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; - noun A faint
mark or visiblesign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present;remains . - noun biology a
vestigial organ ; a non-functionalorgan orbody part that was once functional in anevolutionary ancestor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an indication that something has been present
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From here, as from the Sassi Bianco, one sees its true form and its actual summit; while of the one no idea can be formed, and of the other no vestige is visible, from either the Tre Sassi or the Fedaja.
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I think think the same goes for the word vestige ...
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But these daggers, his only arms, were broken by the sword of Holagou, and not a vestige is left of the enemies of mankind, except the word assassin, which, in the most odious sense, has been adopted in the languages of Europe.
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Israel will have to be careful not to give the impression that it is hampering Obama’s foreign policy, like a kind of vestige from the Bush period.
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Israel will have to be careful not to give the impression that it is hampering Obama’s foreign policy, like a kind of vestige from the Bush period.
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Thus Intellectual-Principle is a vestige of the Supreme; but since the vestige is a Form going out into extension, into plurality, that Prior, as the source of Form, must be itself without shape and Form: if the Prior were
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You can find traditional models or some very interesting solutions like the splendid "vestige" model shown in the picture on the right you can buy it at less than 300$...35% less than normal retail price!
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The owner of the company that owns the mine, the International Coal Group, is holding out hope, any kind of vestige of hope that these 13 miners are still alive.
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I wondered whether it was some kind of vestige of Catholic theology from their education system. or "some class of vestige of Catholic theology".
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But a creature is called a vestige based on properties which point to God as triple cause “ efficient, formal, and final cause; for example, the properties: one, true, and good.” [
rolig commented on the word vestige
A word I want to remember when I have to translate the Slovene sled, as an alternative to trace, which has become overused in post-Derridean theoretical writings.
September 6, 2010
shanvrolijk commented on the word vestige
"Adhering adhere'>adhere to a view of history as a teleological climb by humanity to greater and greater heights of rationality, they see religion as an irrational vestige of a more primitive mankind. "
Source: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
January 22, 2018