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‖ veˈstigium Now rare.
Pl. vestigia (also 7 vestigia's).
[L.: see vestige.]
a. A vestige or trace; a mark or indication left by something destroyed, lost, or no longer present.
1637Nabbes Microcosm. v. in Dodsley O. Pl. (1744) V. 355 Repentance stays as the vestigium, Or mark impress'd, by which the past disease Is found to have been. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies vii. §7. 50 Experience assureth vs, that after it [sc. light] is extinguished, it leaueth not the least vestigium behind it of hauing beene there. 1665Sir T. Herbert Trav. (1677) 353 Upon better view I may discover his [Jerah's] Vestigia near Malacca amongst his other Brethren. 1749Phil. Trans. XLVI. 197 Ruinous Heaps and Vestigia nearly effaced by Length of Time.
b. Const. of.
1644[H. Parker] Jus Populi 54 Neither Nature nor History afford us any Vestigia of it. 1664Evelyn tr. Freart's Archit. ii. 9 Of which there is to this day some Vestigia's remaining. 1722Wollaston Relig. Nat. v. 92 So universally and utterly abolishd, that no part, no vestigium of them should remain. 1769E. Bancroft Guiana 42 It is covered with bark of a light brown colour, variegated by the vestigia of the fallen off stamina of the leaves. 1771Ann. Reg. ii. 200/1 The vestigia of antiquity in a vicinage ought always to have great weight in determinations of this kind. 1970H. Braun Parish Churches ix. 124 These [arches] are not, as might have been supposed, the remains of an earlier clearstory, but simply vestigia of the original windows of a pre-medieval nave.
†c. spec. (See quot. 1704.) Obs.
1695Woodward Nat. Hist. Earth 22 The same Vestigia of Tendons..in each [fossil shell]. 1704J. Harris Lex. Techn. I. s.v., Vestigia of Tendons, are the little Hollows in the Shells of Fishes, which are formed on purpose for the fastening or rooting of the Tendons of their Muscles. |