vestaladj.n.

Brit.

/ˈvɛstl/, U.S.

/ˈvɛst(ə)l/

Etymology: < Latin vestālis, < Vesta Vesta n. So Spanish vestal, Portuguese vestal, Italian vestale, French vestale.

A. adj.

1. vestal virgin n. one of the priestesses (originally four, subsequently six in number) who had charge of the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta at Rome.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman > vestal virgin

vestal virgin?a1475

vestal1579

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 473 Cornelia, the most noble of virgynes vestalle,..was put in to therthe on lyve.

1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xix. 202 Þai condampnit Oppia þe virgine vestal for hir Incest.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. xx. 14 Numa..instituted also a Nunnerie as it were, of religious vestall virgines.

1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. xi. 676 The Vestall virgin who had the charge that night..was..throughly skourged.

1692 tr. Sallust Wks. 20 Cataline had..Debauch'd a Lady of Noble Extraction, and a Vestal Virgin.

1710 W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes (1722) ix. 26 The Vestal Virgin Claudia, whose..freedom of Behaviour had made her Modesty suspected.

1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 882/2 What is there in Rome so sacred and venerable as the vestal virgins who keep the perpetual fire?

1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 23 The miracles which clustered so thickly around the vestal virgins.

1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xlix. 160 In defiance of every law..he had recently seized Rubria, one of the Vestal Virgins.

2. Of fire, etc.: Of or pertaining to Vesta.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of or relating to Vesta

vestal1599

1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xii. 40 They counted it vnlawfull to refresh the Vestall fire.

1627 M. Drayton Shepheards Sirena in Battaile Agincourt 144 My coate with light should shine, Purer then the Vestall fire.

1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 She sprinkl'd thrice, with Wine, the Vestal Fire.

1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. cxiv. 287 Those institutions..have still kept the light burning like the vestal fire.

1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 32 Oblivion steals upon her vestal-lamp.

1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 301 Three stoves and a cooking-galley, four Argand and three bear-fat lamps, burn with the constancy of a vestal shrine.

figurative.1752 E. Young Brothers i. i Thou in whose eye, so modest, and so bright, Love ever wakes, and keeps a vestal fire.1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna Ded. p. xxx Thro' thine eyes, even in thy soul I see A lamp of vestal fire burning internally.1853 Christian Remembrancer Jan. 70 Then it was that the Jeromes and the Eustochiums retired..from a world whose light seemed on the eve of extinction, to nurse the vestal fire which was never to be really put out.

3. Resembling a priestess of Vesta in respect of chastity; chaste, pure, virgin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [adjective] > virginal

unknowna1382

maidena1400

untouchedc1400

undefiledc1450

virginal1483

indeflore?a1513

maidenly1530

undeflowereda1533

virginly1548

untwight1558

virgin1560

unravished1563

undeflore1568

unexperta1586

virgin-like1586

vestal1595

virgineous1607

virginian1613

unseduceda1616

indevirginate?1624

zoned1726

virgie1930

unlaid1962

1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine v. iv. 54 Beleeue me, Locrine, but the girle is wise, And well would seeme to make a vestall Nunne.

1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 189 Demure and chast as any Vestal Nun.

1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ix. 264 Jones had no Reason to imagine the Lady to have been of the vestal Kind.

1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 22 The day is come, and thou wilt fly with me. To whatsoe'er of dull mortality Is mine, remain a vestal sister still.

1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xviii Mrs Hannah, the vestal gentlewoman of my Lady Lillycraft, has had long walks and talks with Phœbe.

in extended use.1806 T. Moore Dream Antiq. i Upon the bank awhile I stood, And saw the vestal planet weep Her tears of light on Ariel's flood.1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 44 Oft have I brought thee flowers, on their stalks set Like vestal primroses.

4. Pertaining to, characteristic of, a vestal virgin or virgins; marked by chastity or purity.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [adjective]

virginalc1450

vestal1594

parthenian1623

parthenic1834

1594 M. Drayton Amour 5 in Ideas Mirrovr sig. B3 Since holy Vestall lawes haue been neglected.

1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 50 Her vestall liuerie is but pale and greene.

a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. iii. 14 This is my last Of vestall office, I am bride habited, But mayden harted.

1729 T. Cooke Tales 18 Young Men, and Virgins,..Attend a Song fit for a vestal Ear.

1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 34 O dear and blessed peace! Why dost thou shroud thy vestal purity In penury and dungeons?

1825 W. Scott Betrothed i, in Tales Crusaders II. 3 Necessarily introducing many male guests within those vestal precincts.

1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 34 Love-whispers may not breathe Within this vestal limit.

B. n.

1. A vestal virgin.

ΘΚΠ

society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman > vestal virgin

vestal virgin?a1475

vestal1579

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 73 He also hath the keeping of the holy virgines which they call Vestales.

1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 74 [He] taketh out..the condemned Vestall, muffled vp close.

1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor (at cited word) These Vestals were first instituted by Numa Pompilius, or as some write, by Romulus.

1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Vesta Certain Virgins called Vestalls, who were to take care of the Vestal fire.

1722 J. Richardson Acct. Statues Italy 135 The Head of the young Vestal was the most engaging thing I had seen in Italy.

1740 J. Du Pré tr. P. Mussard Conformity Anc. & Mod. Ceremonies 47 The Chief of the Vestals was called Maxima.

1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 265 A..face formed exactly like the Venus of Medicis, or the sleeping vestal.

1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 286/1 The habits which the vestals had acquired during their priesthood.

1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. iii. 433 (note) The vestal Urbinia was buried alive on account of a plague.

figurative and in extended use.1594 M. Drayton Amour 5 in Ideas Mirrovr sig. B3 Here Chastity that Vestall most diuine, Attends that Lampe with eye which neuer sleepeth.1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xvii. 67 I keep neither man or boy,..or any thing that can eat or drink, except a thin poor piece of a Vestal (to keep my fire in).1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe iv. 40 A flame..which Hugh was so far a vestal as to supply with its necessary fuel, at all seasons of the year.

2. A virgin; a chaste woman; a nun.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [noun] > a virgin

maidenmaneOE

maidenOE

maida1225

virgina1393

vestal1593

virgo intacta1726

fresh meat1896

virguncule1911

cherry1928

virgie1930

society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun]

nuneOE

sistereOE

minchenOE

nun-sisterOE

spousea1200

ladyc1275

religious1340

clergess1393

homely womana1400

monialc1400

moinesa1513

sanctimoniala1513

vowess1533

nosegent1567

votaress1589

votress1597

monkess1602

White Lady1606

cloistressa1616

sanctimony1630

religiosea1657

clergywoman1673

religieuse1682

religioso1708

vestal1717

society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun] > of a woman > woman

vestal1847

Madonnaa1930

1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 80 A grosse-pencild Painter, who..vnder colour of drawing of pictures, drawes more to his shady Pauilion, then depart thence pure Vestals.

1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 158 A certaine aime he tooke At a faire Vestall, throned by west.

1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 7 Shall's goe heare the Vestalls sing?

1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 427 How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 554 The stain Appears a spot upon a vestal's robe, The worse for what it soils.

1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) x. 82 She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day.

Derivatives

ˈvestalship n. the state or condition of being a vestal or virgin.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [noun]

maidenhoodOE

maidhooda1200

flowera1300

maidenheada1325

maidheada1393

virginitya1400

virgintyc1400

virginality?c1450

maidenliness1555

virginhead1605

virginhood1636

virgin1649

vestalship1893

1893 F. Thompson Poems 42 A mouth too red for the moon to buss it, But her cheek unvow its vestalship.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	vestal
释义	vestaladj.n. Brit. /ˈvɛstl/, U.S. /ˈvɛst(ə)l/ Etymology: < Latin vestālis, < Vesta Vesta n. So Spanish vestal, Portuguese vestal, Italian vestale, French vestale. A. adj. 1. vestal virgin n. one of the priestesses (originally four, subsequently six in number) who had charge of the sacred fire in the temple of Vesta at Rome. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman > vestal virgin vestal virgin?a1475 vestal1579 ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1872) IV. 473 Cornelia, the most noble of virgynes vestalle,..was put in to therthe on lyve. 1533 J. Bellenden tr. Livy Hist. Rome (1901) I. ii. xix. 202 Þai condampnit Oppia þe virgine vestal for hir Incest. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. i. xx. 14 Numa..instituted also a Nunnerie as it were, of religious vestall virgines. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy Rom. Hist. xxviii. xi. 676 The Vestall virgin who had the charge that night..was..throughly skourged. 1692 tr. Sallust Wks. 20 Cataline had..Debauch'd a Lady of Noble Extraction, and a Vestal Virgin. 1710 W. King Heathen Gods & Heroes (1722) ix. 26 The Vestal Virgin Claudia, whose..freedom of Behaviour had made her Modesty suspected. 1770 J. Langhorne & W. Langhorne tr. Plutarch Lives (1851) II. 882/2 What is there in Rome so sacred and venerable as the vestal virgins who keep the perpetual fire? 1865 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. Rationalism (1878) I. 23 The miracles which clustered so thickly around the vestal virgins. 1891 F. W. Farrar Darkness & Dawn II. xlix. 160 In defiance of every law..he had recently seized Rubria, one of the Vestal Virgins. 2. Of fire, etc.: Of or pertaining to Vesta. ΘΚΠ the world > the supernatural > deity > classical deity > [adjective] > of or relating to Vesta vestal1599 1599 Master Broughtons Lett. Answered xii. 40 They counted it vnlawfull to refresh the Vestall fire. 1627 M. Drayton Shepheards Sirena in Battaile Agincourt 144 My coate with light should shine, Purer then the Vestall fire. 1697 J. Dryden tr. Virgil Georgics iv, in tr. Virgil Wks. 139 She sprinkl'd thrice, with Wine, the Vestal Fire. View more context for this quotation 1782 V. Knox Ess. (1819) II. cxiv. 287 Those institutions..have still kept the light burning like the vestal fire. 1792 S. Rogers Pleasures Mem. ii. 32 Oblivion steals upon her vestal-lamp. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xxxiv. 301 Three stoves and a cooking-galley, four Argand and three bear-fat lamps, burn with the constancy of a vestal shrine. figurative.1752 E. Young Brothers i. i Thou in whose eye, so modest, and so bright, Love ever wakes, and keeps a vestal fire.1817 P. B. Shelley Laon & Cythna Ded. p. xxx Thro' thine eyes, even in thy soul I see A lamp of vestal fire burning internally.1853 Christian Remembrancer Jan. 70 Then it was that the Jeromes and the Eustochiums retired..from a world whose light seemed on the eve of extinction, to nurse the vestal fire which was never to be really put out. 3. Resembling a priestess of Vesta in respect of chastity; chaste, pure, virgin. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [adjective] > virginal unknowna1382 maidena1400 untouchedc1400 undefiledc1450 virginal1483 indeflore?a1513 maidenly1530 undeflowereda1533 virginly1548 untwight1558 virgin1560 unravished1563 undeflore1568 unexperta1586 virgin-like1586 vestal1595 virgineous1607 virginian1613 unseduceda1616 indevirginate?1624 zoned1726 virgie1930 unlaid1962 1595 W. S. Lamentable Trag. Locrine v. iv. 54 Beleeue me, Locrine, but the girle is wise, And well would seeme to make a vestall Nunne. 1709 A. Pope Chaucer's January & May in Poet. Misc.: 6th Pt. 189 Demure and chast as any Vestal Nun. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xv. ix. 264 Jones had no Reason to imagine the Lady to have been of the vestal Kind. View more context for this quotation 1821 P. B. Shelley Epipsychidion 22 The day is come, and thou wilt fly with me. To whatsoe'er of dull mortality Is mine, remain a vestal sister still. 1822 W. Irving Bracebridge Hall xviii Mrs Hannah, the vestal gentlewoman of my Lady Lillycraft, has had long walks and talks with Phœbe. in extended use.1806 T. Moore Dream Antiq. i Upon the bank awhile I stood, And saw the vestal planet weep Her tears of light on Ariel's flood.1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 44 Oft have I brought thee flowers, on their stalks set Like vestal primroses. 4. Pertaining to, characteristic of, a vestal virgin or virgins; marked by chastity or purity. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [adjective] virginalc1450 vestal1594 parthenian1623 parthenic1834 1594 M. Drayton Amour 5 in Ideas Mirrovr sig. B3 Since holy Vestall lawes haue been neglected. 1597 W. Shakespeare Romeo & Juliet ii. i. 50 Her vestall liuerie is but pale and greene. View more context for this quotation a1625 W. Shakespeare & J. Fletcher Two Noble Kinsmen (1634) v. iii. 14 This is my last Of vestall office, I am bride habited, But mayden harted. View more context for this quotation 1729 T. Cooke Tales 18 Young Men, and Virgins,..Attend a Song fit for a vestal Ear. 1813 P. B. Shelley Queen Mab iii. 34 O dear and blessed peace! Why dost thou shroud thy vestal purity In penury and dungeons? 1825 W. Scott Betrothed i, in Tales Crusaders II. 3 Necessarily introducing many male guests within those vestal precincts. 1847 Ld. Tennyson Princess ii. 34 Love-whispers may not breathe Within this vestal limit. B. n. 1. A vestal virgin. ΘΚΠ society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > ancient Roman > vestal virgin vestal virgin?a1475 vestal1579 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 73 He also hath the keeping of the holy virgines which they call Vestales. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 74 [He] taketh out..the condemned Vestall, muffled vp close. 1616 J. Bullokar Eng. Expositor (at cited word) These Vestals were first instituted by Numa Pompilius, or as some write, by Romulus. 1671 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Vesta Certain Virgins called Vestalls, who were to take care of the Vestal fire. 1722 J. Richardson Acct. Statues Italy 135 The Head of the young Vestal was the most engaging thing I had seen in Italy. 1740 J. Du Pré tr. P. Mussard Conformity Anc. & Mod. Ceremonies 47 The Chief of the Vestals was called Maxima. 1774 O. Goldsmith Hist. Earth II. 265 A..face formed exactly like the Venus of Medicis, or the sleeping vestal. 1843 Penny Cycl. XXVI. 286/1 The habits which the vestals had acquired during their priesthood. 1869 W. E. H. Lecky Hist. European Morals I. iii. 433 (note) The vestal Urbinia was buried alive on account of a plague. figurative and in extended use.1594 M. Drayton Amour 5 in Ideas Mirrovr sig. B3 Here Chastity that Vestall most diuine, Attends that Lampe with eye which neuer sleepeth.1767 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy IX. xvii. 67 I keep neither man or boy,..or any thing that can eat or drink, except a thin poor piece of a Vestal (to keep my fire in).1828 N. Hawthorne Fanshawe iv. 40 A flame..which Hugh was so far a vestal as to supply with its necessary fuel, at all seasons of the year. 2. A virgin; a chaste woman; a nun. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [noun] > a virgin maidenmaneOE maidenOE maida1225 virgina1393 vestal1593 virgo intacta1726 fresh meat1896 virguncule1911 cherry1928 virgie1930 society > faith > church government > monasticism > nun > [noun] nuneOE sistereOE minchenOE nun-sisterOE spousea1200 ladyc1275 religious1340 clergess1393 homely womana1400 monialc1400 moinesa1513 sanctimoniala1513 vowess1533 nosegent1567 votaress1589 votress1597 monkess1602 White Lady1606 cloistressa1616 sanctimony1630 religiosea1657 clergywoman1673 religieuse1682 religioso1708 vestal1717 society > morality > virtue > purity > chastity > [noun] > of a woman > woman vestal1847 Madonnaa1930 1593 T. Nashe Christs Teares 80 A grosse-pencild Painter, who..vnder colour of drawing of pictures, drawes more to his shady Pauilion, then depart thence pure Vestals. 1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream ii. i. 158 A certaine aime he tooke At a faire Vestall, throned by west. View more context for this quotation 1609 W. Shakespeare Pericles xix. 7 Shall's goe heare the Vestalls sing? View more context for this quotation 1717 A. Pope Eloisa to Abelard in Wks. 427 How happy is the blameless Vestal's lot? The world forgetting, by the world forgot. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 554 The stain Appears a spot upon a vestal's robe, The worse for what it soils. 1847 W. M. Thackeray Vanity Fair (1848) x. 82 She was the most hospitable and jovial of old vestals, and had been a beauty in her day. Derivatives ˈvestalship n. the state or condition of being a vestal or virgin. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > virginity > [noun] maidenhoodOE maidhooda1200 flowera1300 maidenheada1325 maidheada1393 virginitya1400 virgintyc1400 virginality?c1450 maidenliness1555 virginhead1605 virginhood1636 virgin1649 vestalship1893 1893 F. Thompson Poems 42 A mouth too red for the moon to buss it, But her cheek unvow its vestalship. 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