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vasty, a.|ˈvɑːstɪ, ˈvæs-|
[f. vast a. + -y.]
Vast, immense. (In mod. use after Shakespeare.)
1596Shakes. 1 Hen. IV, iii. i. 52, I can call Spirits from the vastie Deepe. 1599― Hen. V, ii. iv. 105 The poore Soules, for whom this hungry Warre Opens his vastie Iawes. 1605Play of Stucley K iij b, Which makes me..sorrow that thy valour should be sunke In such a vasty vnknowne sea of Armes. 1610Holland Camden's Brit. i. 330, I saw in a white-sandy ground divers vastie, craggie stones of strange formes.
1792R. Cumberland Calvary 182 Noah can tell How all the earth with violence was fill'd, Or e'er the fountains of the vasty deep Were broken up. 1845Ford Handbk. Sp. i. 77 The feudal castle, the vasty Escorial, the rock-built alcazar. 1867E. F. Bull Ecce Coelum i. 10 Not a whisper, not a rustle, through all the vasty dome.
fig.1848Bailey Festus (ed. 3) 63 Yon pretty little star Shines on a vasty falsehood. 1885Pater Marius II. 48 Those vasty conceptions of the later Greek philosophy. |