vestige, vestigie

(Fr., from Lat. vest i gium a footstep, a track.] I. Ord. Lang.: The mark of a foot made in pa ing; a footstep, a footprint, a track, a trace; hence, a mark, sign, trace, or impre ion of something no longer present or existing; a sensible evidence or sign of something absent, lost, or gone; remains. "And countle generations of mankind Depart and leave no vestige where they trod." Words worth Excursion , bk. iv. Π. Biol .: (See extract.) "Anatomists who are careful in the use of terms, and yet have had to content themselves with using one and the same word, rudiment, for disappearing and for imper. fected structures, will welcome a suggestion recently made by Mrr Rydering He writes: 'Structures which disappearing should be called vestiges. Structures which are still imperfect, but appearing, be called As it is, the Scelerat us. The abolition of the Vestal Virgins was effected in the reign of Theodosius. "The institution of the vestal virgins is generally attributed to Numa; though we meet with the sacred fire long before, and even in the time of Eneas." -Kennett . Antiquities of Rome , pt. ii., bk. ii., ch. vi. věst-an, subst. [After Vesta, the godde of the domestic hearth.] Min.: A name given by Jenzsch to a variety of quartz supposed to crystallize in the triclinic system. Found in the Melaphyres of Saxony and the Thu ring i an forest. věst'-ěd, pa. par. & a. [VEST, v.] A. As pa . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective : 1. Dre ed; wearing vestments; habited. "Just Simeon and prophetic Anna Before the altar and the vested priest." Milton: P. R. , 1 257. 2. Fixed; not in a state of contingency or suspension. "A power which was vested in others to sell or lease them."- Walton : Life of Hooker .