Vesture Definition

vĕschər
vestured, vestures, vesturing
noun
vestures
Clothing; garments; apparel.
Webster's New World
Something that covers or cloaks.
Hills in a vesture of mist.
American Heritage
A covering; wrapper.
Webster's New World
Everything growing on land except trees, as grass or grain.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
verb
vestured, vestures
To cover; clothe.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Vesture

Noun

Singular:
vesture
Plural:
vestures

Origin of Vesture

  • Middle English, from Old French vesteure, from Vulgar Latin vestitura (“clothing"), from Latin vestitus, perfect passive participle of vestiō (“to clothe"), from vestis (“garment").

    From Wiktionary

  • Middle English from Old French from Vulgar Latin vestītūra from Latin vestītus past participle of vestīre to clothe from vestis garment vest

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Vesture Sentence Examples

  • The soul must be freed from its material surrounding, the "muddy vesture of decay," by an ascetic habit of life.

  • At the height of his career, when between 1840 and 1850 many of Fichte's works were being translated in the Catholic Series, he called attention to Fichte's later view that all earthly things are but as a vesture or appearance under which the Divine idea of the world is the reality.

  • The Brahman holds all nature to be the vesture or cloak of indwelling, divine energy, which inspires everything that produces awe or passes man's understanding "(Sir Alfred C. Lyall, Brahminism).

  • What are the nakedness and the vesture, the shining raiment, the priestly insignia, the girdles?

  • By grace of God, or sleight of hand, he wears the royal vesture, And at thy throne, Divine Success!

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EREURE

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