Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Plural of
vestigium .
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Examples
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But the poet must likewise understand and command what Bacon calls the vestigia communia of the senses, the latency of all in each, and more especially as by a magical penny duplex, the excitement of vision by sound and the exponents of sound.
Biographia Literaria Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1803
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Deus, qui in Ecclesia tua nova semper instauras exempla virtutum: da populo tuo beati Andreæ Confessoris tui atque Pontificis ita sequi vestigia; ut assequatur et præmia.
Leap Year -- Day John 2008
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And «we don't wanna» because it might just lead to ordinary US citizens taking politics, particularly at the national level, seriously, and as Aisōpus put it, «vestigia terrent».
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“Ghull,” a collar of iron or other metal, sometimes made to resemble the Chinese Kza or Cangue, a kind of ambulant pillory, serving like the old stocks which still show in England the veteris vestigia ruris.
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Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.
September 14: the Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross bls 2008
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Confixa clavis viscera tendens manus, vestigia, redemptionis gratia hic immolata est hostia.
Archive 2008-09-01 bls 2008
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[5417] Illam quicquid agit, quoquo vestigia vertit,
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[6732] Assequitur Nemesique virum vestigia servat,
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Homer: Et canis in somnis leporis vestigia latrat: as a dog dreams of a hare, so do men on such subjects they thought on last.
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