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vesture
(encz) | vesture,háv n: Zdeněk Brož |
vesture
(encz) | vesture,roucho n: Zdeněk Brož |
vesture
(encz) | vesture,šat n: Zdeněk Brož |
Vesture
(gcide) | Vesture \Ves"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. vesture, vesteure, F.
v[^e]ture, LL. vestitura, from L. vestire to clothe, dress.
See Vest, v. t., and cf. Vestiture.]
1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel;
vestment; covering; envelope. --Piers Plowman.
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Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem.
--Milton.
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Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a
vesture of plants. --Bentley.
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There polished chests embroidered vestures graced.
--Pope.
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2. (O. Eng. Law)
(a) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which
land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.
(b) Seizin; possession.
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vesture
(wn) | vesture
n 1: something that covers or cloaks like a garment; "fields in
a vesture of green"
2: a covering designed to be worn on a person's body [syn:
clothing, article of clothing, vesture, wear,
wearable, habiliment]
v 1: provide or cover with a cloak |
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Divesture
(gcide) | Divesture \Di*ves"ture\ (?; 135), n.
Divestiture. [Obs.]
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Investure
(gcide) | Investure \In*ves"ture\ (?; 135), n.
Investiture; investment. [Obs.] --Bp. Burnet.
[1913 Webster]Investure \In*ves"ture\, v. t.
To clothe; to invest; to install. [Obs.] "Monks . . .
investured in their copes." --Fuller.
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Vesture
(gcide) | Vesture \Ves"ture\ (?; 135), n. [OF. vesture, vesteure, F.
v[^e]ture, LL. vestitura, from L. vestire to clothe, dress.
See Vest, v. t., and cf. Vestiture.]
1. A garment or garments; a robe; clothing; dress; apparel;
vestment; covering; envelope. --Piers Plowman.
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Approach, and kiss her sacred vesture's hem.
--Milton.
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Rocks, precipices, and gulfs, appareled with a
vesture of plants. --Bentley.
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There polished chests embroidered vestures graced.
--Pope.
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2. (O. Eng. Law)
(a) The corn, grass, underwood, stubble, etc., with which
land was covered; as, the vesture of an acre.
(b) Seizin; possession.
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Vestured
(gcide) | Vestured \Ves"tured\, a.
Covered with vesture or garments; clothed; enveloped.
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We be vestured with poor cloth. --Ld. Berners.
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VESTURE OF LAND
(bouvier) | VESTURE OF LAND. By this phrase is meant all things, trees excepted, which
grow upon the surface of the land, and clothe it externally.
2. He who has the vesture of land has a right, generally, to exclude
others from entering upon the superficies of the soil. 1 Inst. 4, b; Hamm.
N. P. 151; pee. 7 East, R. 200; 1 Ventr. 393; 2 Roll. Ab. 2.
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