vestigiumn.

1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus v. sig. G2 Repentance stayes as the vestigium, Or marke imprest, by which the past disease Is found to have been.

1644 K. Digby Two Treat. i. vii. 50 Experience assureth vs, that after it [sc. light] is extinguished, it leaueth not the least vestigium behind it of hauing beene there.

1665 T. Herbert Some Years Trav. (new ed.) 353 Upon better view I may discover his [Jerah's] Vestigia near Malacca amongst his other Brethren.

1752 Philos. Trans. 1749–50 (Royal Soc.) 46 197 Ruinous Heaps and Vestigia nearly effaced by Length of Time.

1644 H. Parker Jus Populi 54 Neither Nature nor History afford us any Vestigia of it.

a1660 J. Evelyn Diary anno 1645 (1955) II. 324 The once mighty Capüa..now nothing but an heape of rubbish, with some goodly Vestigias of its pristine magnificence, discover'd in the remaining pieces of Temples..Vaults, Collossas &c.

1664 J. Evelyn tr. R. Fréart Parallel Antient Archit. i. ii. 9 Of which there is to this day some Vestigia's remaining.

1722 W. Wollaston Relig. of Nature v. 92 So universally and utterly abolishd, that no part, no vestigium of them should remain.

1769 E. Bancroft Ess. Nat. Hist. Guiana 42 It is covered with bark of a light brown colour, variegated by the vestigia of the fallen off stamina of the leaves.

1772 Ann. Reg. 1771 ii. 200/1 The vestigia of antiquity in a vicinage ought always to have great weight in determinations of this kind.

1970 H. Braun Parish Churches ix. 124 These [arches] are not, as might have been supposed, the remains of an earlier clearstory, but simply vestigia of the original windows of a pre-medieval nave.

1695 J. Woodward Ess. Nat. Hist. Earth 22 The same Vestigia of Tendons..in each [fossil shell].

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I. (at cited word) Vestigia of Tendons, are the little Hollows in the Shells of Fishes, which are formed on purpose for the fastening or rooting of the Tendons of their Muscles.