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UK
/vˈɛstʃɐ/
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NOUN
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something that covers or cloaks like a garment
fields in a vesture of green - a covering designed to be worn on a person's body
VERB
- provide or cover with a cloak
How To Use vesture In A Sentence
- By baptism we be regenerate, and when we shall have passed the time of this exile, he shall clothe us of double vesture, that is to wit of body and soul in glory. The Golden Legend, vol. 1
- The vestures in S. japonica vary from small and unbranched to largely branched and widely expanding.
- It is because He wears a vesture dipped in blood, that 'on the vesture is the name written "King of kings, and Lord of lords."' Expositions of Holy Scripture: the Acts
- The spiritual exhilaration by it was mistaken for that caused by new wine (Ac 2: 13-17; Eph 5: 18). belly -- that is, the vesture on it. Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible
- The vesture is a lighter color than the traditional dark purple. Lent 4: Homily on Christian Nurture
- The host was well beseen with five hundred men with steeds and vesture. The Nibelungenlied
- Despondence, which is manifested in the disordered and disrupted rim vestured by darkness, sets off and contradicts to the extravagance behind it.
- Communion, the Priest that shall execute the holy ministry shall put upon him the vesture appointed for that ministration, that is to say The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- “Old!” exclaimed the knight; “now, by the gods and saints, if there be a gallant at the British Court more fancifully considerate, and more considerately fanciful, but quaintly curious, and more curiously quaint, in frequent changes of all rich articles of vesture, becoming one who may be accounted point-device a courtier, I will give you leave to term me a slave and a liar.” The Monastery
- Among these elements were the language of sacrifice, the vesture of Aaronic priests, clouds of incense rising like orisons to the throne, and the prayer of worship chanted by priests and people alike.