Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A garment, especially a robe or gown worn as an indication of office or state.
- noun Ecclesiastical Any of the ritual robes worn by members of the clergy, acolytes, or other assistants at services or rites, especially a garment worn at the celebration of the Eucharist.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress; an article of clothing; especially, some part of outer clothing; specifically, a ceremonial or official robe or garment.
- noun Eccles.: One of the garments worn, in addition to the cassock and ordinary dress, by the clergy and their assistants, choristers, etc., during divine service and the administration of the sacraments; especially, one of the garments so worn by the celebrant, deacon, and subdeacon during the celebration of the eucharist; specifically, the chasuble, or the chasuble with the other eucharistic garments and ornaments, especially the amice, stole, and maniple. One of the cloths or coverings of the altar.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Eccl.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
robe orgown worn as anindication ofoffice . - noun Any of the robes worn by members of the
clergy etc., especially agarment worn at thecelebration of theEucharist .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun gown (especially ceremonial garments) worn by the clergy
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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After this, in the Italian remains, the vestment is shorter and the sleeves narrower although the traces of the change are at first only here and there noticeable.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913
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A vestment is a ceremonial robe; a vest is a sleeveless garment now worn more by stylish women than by male business executives.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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A vestment is a ceremonial robe; a vest is a sleeveless garment now worn more by stylish women than by male business executives.
The Right Word in the Right Place at the Right Time William Safire 2004
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You will see every kind of vestment and liturgical object.
Anglican Church of Canada is hawking the silverware « Anglican Samizdat 2010
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Literally, the word means the "action of putting something in to somewhere else" perhaps originally related to a person's garment or 'vestment'.
Its time to tell the difference between 'investment' and 'spending' Man in a Shed 2006
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Literally, the word means the "action of putting something in to somewhere else" perhaps originally related to a person's garment or 'vestment'.
Archive 2006-04-01 Man in a Shed 2006
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If you spend hundreds of hours and years watching TV, does that time suddenly become your "vestment" and then your own intellectual property?
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[34] The term "vestment" was often used to include not merely the chasuble, but also the other vestments of the celebrant and his assistant ministers; sometimes it also included the vestments of the altar, the frontal and upper frontal; it nearly always included the apparels, sometimes also the albe and amice, but at other times these were reckoned separately among the linen.
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He cannot allow you, or any other man, to tear again and spoil that vestment which is the work of His hands. "
The Priest, The Woman And The Confessional Father Chiniquy
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Rayon Richards for The Wall Street Journal Mr. Hewlett, who spent 31 years as a monk, adorned the home with religious pieces like a wood-carved body of Christ in the living room and an antique vestment in the dining room, shown here.
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