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vesture, n.|ˈvɛstjʊə(r)|
Also 5 vestoure, wester (9 dial. vester), 6–7 vestur.
[a. AF. and OF. vesture (mod.F. vêture), f. vestir vest v. Cf. med.L. and It. vestura.]
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1. That with which a person is clothed or dressed: a. With a or pl. An article of apparel or clothing; a garment or vestment.
13..E.E. Allit. P. B. 1288 Wyth alle þe coyntyse þat he [i.e. Solomon] cowþe clene to wyrke Deuised he þe vesselment, þe vestures clene. c1384Chaucer H. Fame iii. 235 Alle and euery man Of hem..Had on him throwen a vesture, Whiche that men clepen a cote armure. a1400–50Alexander 1539 (Ashm.), And sithen he castis on a Cape of kastand hewes,..A vestoure to vise on of violet floures. a1513Fabyan Chron. vii. 558 Fyre was put to the vesturis of the disguysers. c1550Disc. Common Weal Eng. ii. (1893) 75, I haue hearde vestures weare made only of gold then. 1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 113 A certeyne Kynge made towarde theym appareled with vestures of gossampine cotton. 1611Bible Gen. xli. 42 Pharaoh..arayed him in vestures of fine linnen. 1643J. Burroughes Exp. Hosea xi. (1652) 344 It anathematizes all those that shall judge one vesture, one garment more holy then another. 1827G. Higgins Celtic Druids 214 Clothed with never-fading vestures. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh v. 322 The whirling white Of choral vestures. 1871Longfellow Wayside Inn ii. Leg. Beautiful 17 And he saw the Blessed Vision Of our Lord, with light Elysian Like a vesture wrapped about him.
b. collect. Apparel, clothing, garb, raiment.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 2691 (Hypermnestra), I am a mayde,..And be my semblant, and by my vesture, Myn handes ben nat shapen for a knyfe. 1393Langl. P. Pl. C. ii. 23 Aren non nudful bote þo þre [things]... The ferst of þo ys fode, and vesture þe secounde. 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 347 A knyȝhte..clothede also with regalle vesture, as if he hade bene the kynge. a1475Ashby Active Policy 535 Lete nat the pouer Comyns be dysguised Nee haue precious clothe in theire Vesture. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxx. 283 The kyng of Cypre holpe them to complayne the dethe of the kyng,..and..clothed hymselfe with the vesture of doloure. 1535Coverdale Ps. xxi. 18 They haue parted my garmentes amonge them, and cast lottes vpon my vesture. a1548Hall Chron., Hen. IV, 13 They adorned Magdalene..in roiall and princely vesture. 1601Shakes. Jul. C. iii. ii. 200 Kinde Soules, what weepe you, when you but behold Our Cæsars Vesture wounded? 1670Milton Hist. Eng. iii. Wks. 1851 V. 132 The Abbots Coap, which he had thrown over them, thinking by the reverence of his vesture to have withheld the murderer. 1790Cowper Receipt Mother's Pict. 75 Could time..restore the hours, When, playing with thy vesture's tissued flowers,..I prick'd them into paper with a pin. 1813Scott Trierm. iii. xxxv, Her graceful vesture swept the ground. 1855Macaulay Hist. Eng. xiii. III. 305 Seers wrapped themselves up in bulls' hides, and awaited, in that vesture, the inspiration which was to reveal the future. 1856Mrs. Browning Aur. Leigh i. 887 The rustling of your vesture through my dreams.
attrib.a1743Savage Progr. Divine Wks. 1775 II. 119 To tear off rings,..To part 'em, for the vesture-shroud cast lots.
c. transf. and fig. (Freq. in the 19th c.)
1526Pilgr. Perf. (W. de W. 1531) 8 For there all shall be clothed with the vesture of immortalite & garment of glory. 1575–85Abp. Sandys Serm. (Parker Soc.) 208 To clothe ourselves with the comely vesture of innocency. 1602Marston Ant. & Mel. ii. Wks. 1856 I. 26 Would'st thou have us sluts, and never shift the vestur of our thoughts? 1653J. Hall Paradoxes 76 The strongest and most handsome Animalls are satisfied in their owne naturall Vestures. 1727Dyer Grongar Hill 99 Thus is nature's vesture wrought. 1738Glover Leonidas i. 271 The moon through all the dreary vapour spreads The radiant vesture of her silver light. 1768Johnson in Johnsoniana (1836) 438 When a nation..acquires new ideas, it must necessarily have a suitable vesture for them. 1862Stanley Jew. Ch. I. xii. (1877) 223 The golden clusters of the Syrian vine,..so beautiful a vesture of the bare hills of Palestine. 1867H. Macmillan Bible Teach. iii. (1870) 45 Nature as a whole was meant to be for man the vesture of the spiritual world.
d. Conch. (See quot.) rare—0.
1755Gentl. Mag. XXV. 32 Vesture, the inner covering of a shell that first appears upon removing the epidermis.
2. Law. All that grows upon or covers the land, with the exception of trees; one or other of the products of land, such as grass or corn.
1455Rolls of Parlt. V. 305/1, xl acres of Wode, and the Vesture of the same, in our Forest. 1467–8Ibid. V. 575/2 The vesture of Grasse and Cornes therof. 1523Fitzherbert Surv. v, It is to be enquered of parkes..howe many acres ar conteyned in them, and for how moche the vesture of euery acre may be sold. 1622Callis Stat. Sewers (1647) 105 He which hath the Vesture or Herbage of grounds..may be charged to the repairs. 1630Capt. Smith Advt. Planters 25 The best [ground] is ever knowne by the greatnesse of the trees and the vesture it beareth. 1768Blackstone Comm. III. 210 It is requisite that the party have a lease and possession of the vesture and herbage of the land. 1817W. Selwyn Law Nisi Prius (ed. 4) II. 1217 Where plaintiff is intitled to the vesture of land, that is, corn, grass, underwood, and the like. 1869Austin's Jurispr. (ed. 3) II. 881 In English Law it has been held that one person may have a freehold in the soil and another in the vesture. 1885Law Times Rep. LII. 572/2 Certain hay, straw, and other vestures which have arisen on the said farm.
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†3. The investiture of a person as a novice in a religious order. Obs.—1
1639S. Du Verger tr. Camus' Admir. Events 184 The two youngest, designated to the monastery, were yet farr from the age not only of profession but of vesture.
†4. Law. (See quot. and investure.) Obs.—0
1607Cowell Interpr., Vesture,..in the vse of our common lawe, [is] turned metaphorically to betoken a possession, or an admittance to a possession.
Hence ˈvesture v. trans., to array in a vesture or vestments. rare.
1555Eden Decades (Arb.) 309 That he shuld bee honorably receaued and vestured with silke. |