vesture
Americannoun
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Law.
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everything growing on and covering the land, with the exception of trees.
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any such covering, as grass or wheat.
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Archaic.
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clothing; garments.
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something that covers like a garment; covering.
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verb (used with object)
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vestures,
present (3rd person singular)
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vestured,
past participle, past
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vesturing
present participle
noun
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archaic a garment or something that seems like a garment
a vesture of cloud
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law
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everything except trees that grows on the land
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a product of the land, such as grass, wheat, etc
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verb
Other Word Forms
Derived Forms
Inflected Forms
Participles
Conjugated Forms
Present
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vesturesimple
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vesturessimple
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have vesturedperfect
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has vesturedperfect
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am vesturingprogressive
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are vesturingprogressive
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is vesturingprogressive
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have been vesturingperfect progressive
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has been vesturingperfect progressive
Past
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vesturedsimple
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had vesturedperfect
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was vesturingprogressive
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were vesturingprogressive
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had been vesturingperfect progressive
Future
Etymology
Origin of vesture
1300–50; Middle English < Anglo-French; Old French vesteure < Vulgar Latin *vestītūra, equivalent to Latin vestīt ( us ), past participle of vestīre ( see vest) + -ūra -ure
Example Sentences
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Benedict, in contrast, wore the vesture like a uniform, emphasizing his notion of the papacy not as a glamorous appointment but as the humble, humbling job of leading the Catholic Church.
From Washington Post ● Dec. 31, 2022
Gazing up at the stars, he muses, “Such harmony is in immortal souls,/But whilst this muddy vesture of decay/Doth grossly enclose it, we cannot hear it.”
From New York Times ● Mar. 4, 2011
The music-master was a young man, thin and clean, whose bright silk waistcoats belied the gravity of the rest of his vesture, which was black and brown.
From "The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party" by M.T. Anderson
Forthwith he summon'd them Those by whom his message to Siegfried's land he sent, Brunhild sumptuous vesture gave them to their full content.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
XC At court the lovely ladies were asking evermore, Who was the stately stranger that so rich vesture wore, At once so fair of presence and so strong of hand.
From The Nibelungenlied Revised Edition by Unknown
And then he was glad he had found the straw hat with the youthful ribbon, and all his other festal vestures.
From The Gentleman from Indiana by Booth Tarkington
But whatever end or transformation, or unveiling may happen, that which creates beauty must have beauty in its essence, and the soul must cast off many vestures before it comes to itself.
From Imaginations and Reveries by George William Russell
The offering of the vestures vnto the sepulchres.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 09 Asia, Part II by Richard Hakluyt
Each of the figures had, as the inscription said, "a writing on their vestures which nobody knew".
From Ghost Stories of an Antiquary by M. R. (Montague Rhodes) James
Erelong these outward trappings, these visible treasures, these earthly vanities, these arrayed armies, these adorned vestures, these proud and overweening souls, all shall pass into the confines of the grave, as though into that box.
From The Summons of the Lord of Hosts by Bahá'u'lláh
But these great Beasts, vestured in angry orange, three stings from which—so 't was averred—would kill a horse, these were of a different kidney, and their warning drone suggested prudence and retreat.
From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
Here is elemental personality, in inwrought and indivisible unity, with measureless capacity for versatility, easily blending fulness of vigor with complete repose, vestured and transfused with native symmetry and grace.
From Abraham Lincoln's Cardinal Traits; A Study in Ethics, with an Epilogue Addressed to Theologians by Clark S. Beardslee
But these great Beasts, vestured in angry orange, three stings from which—so 'twas averred—would kill a horse, these were of a different kidney, and their dreadful drone suggested prudence and retreat.
From The Golden Age by Kenneth Grahame
Every field is newly vestured in young corn or the olive greenness of wheat; the smell of the earth is full of sweetness.
From Ireland, Historic and Picturesque by Charles Johnston
"Crowned with olive over a white veil a Lady appeared to me, vestured in hue of living flame under a green mantle."
From Dante: "The Central Man of All the World" A Course of Lectures Delivered Before the Student Body of the New York State College for Teachers, Albany, 1919, 1920 by John T. (John Theodore) Slattery
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