VESTAL
\vˈɛstə͡l], \vˈɛstəl], \v_ˈɛ_s_t_əl]\
Definitions of VESTAL
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
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Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
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A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
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A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
By Oddity Software
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Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
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A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
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A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
By Noah Webster.
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Pertaining to, or sacred to, Vesta, the Roman goddess of the hearth and home, or to one of the virgins who served in her temple.
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In the Roman religion, a virgin vowed to the service of Vesta; a virgin; also, a nun: Vestal Virgins, the six virgin priestesses who tended the sacred fire on the altar of the temple of Vesta, at Rome.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
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Pertaining to Vesta.
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Suitable for a vestal or a nun; chaste; pure.
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Rom. Antiq. One of the virgin priestesses of Vesta.
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A virgin; num.
By James Champlin Fernald
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Pertaining to the goddess Vesta; pure; chaste.
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One of originally four, ultimately six, virgins, consecrated as such to Vesta for the guardianship of the sacred fire, which they tended day and night, and never suffered to go out; a chaste woman; one devoted religiously to a life of chastity.
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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