vestiture (vestitur)

[L. vestire, pp. ves tit us, dre , clothe (see vest ), + -ure. Cf. ves ture, investiture.] 14. The manufacture or preparation of cloth. R. Parke.-2t. Investiture. -3. In zoöl., the hairs, scales, etc., covering a surface: as, the vestiture of the thorax of an in The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia: The Century dictionary IMG:content-1818.png:[merged small][merged small][merged small][graphic][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small][merged small] IMG:content-1819.jpg:[blocks in formation] I could discover no vestiges of common houses in Dendera more than in any other of the great towns in Egypt. Bruce , Source of the Nile, I. 105. What vestiges of liberty or property have they left? Burke, Rev. in France. 2. In biol., any vestigial organ or ti ue, having little or no utility, but corresponding to a use ful part existing in some lower animal. See vestigial and rudiment, 3.=Syn. See trace1. vestigia, n. Plural of vestigium. vestigial (ves-tij'i-al), a. [L. vestigium, foot ing, Hir vestiments which that they were. Chaucer, Knight's Tale, 1. 2090. The judges in their vestments of state attended to give advice on points of law. Macaulay , Warren Hastings. 2. Eccles .. (a) One of garments worn, dition to the ca ock and ordinary dre , by the clergy and their a istants, choristers, etc., during divine service and the administration of the sacraments; especially, one of the garments so worn by the celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon during the celebration of the eucharist; spesuble, or the chasuble with the with reference to that structure in the infant; the ver miform appendix of the colon is vestigial with reference to the very large cæcum of a ruminant; the stunted coracoid proce of the scapula of a mammal is a vestigial structure with reference to the large articulated coracoid bone of a bird. Vestigial structures of any kind, or the remains of what has been, are to be carefully distinguished from rudimentary structures, or the beginning They are very significant biological facts, of which much use has been made by Darwin and other modern evolutionists in tracing lines of descent with modification and determining probable ancestry. - Vestigial fold, a projection of the pericardium over the root of the left lung, caused by a cord which is the remains of the nearly obliterated duct us Cuvieri, or sinus of Cuvier, of the fetus. - Vestigial what is to be (as fully explained under rudimentary ). other eucharistic garments and ornaments, especially the amice, stole, and maniple. From monumental and other evidence it appears that the type of the principal ecclesiastical vestments has always been nearly the same; that this agreed on the whole with the general style of dre among Greeks, Romans, and Orientals; and that in certain respects it agreed with official rather than common civil dre and with Syrian rather than Greek or Roman costume. (b) One of the cloths or coverings of the altar. vestral (ves'tral), a. [