Vestal is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VESTAL in dictionary:

NOUN:
• (Latin) one of the Roman patrician virgins consecrated to Vesta, goddess of the hearth
• a Vestal Virgin.
• a chaste woman, especially a nun.
• chaste woman
ADJECTIVE:
• relating to a vestal
• relating to the Roman goddess Vesta
• chaste; pure.
• pure, chaste
• Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
• A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
• A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.
• of or relating to Vesta
• in a state of sexual virginity

Words related to VESTAL

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Words that contain VESTAL

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How to use VESTAL in a sentence

• It was deposited in the hands of the vestal virgins, who refused to deliver it up, and sent Caesar word, if he pleased, he should come and seize it himself, which he did.
• Tall and stately, as she moves about her house, a Vestal tending the fire of a kitchen stove.
• In 1821 certain masters were sending their slaves to a Sunday-school opened by Levi Coffin and his son Vestal.
• Her vestal livery is but sick and green, And none but fools do wear it.
• It was a vestal and a virgin fire, and differed as much from that which usually passes by this name nowadays as the vital heat from the burning of a fever.
• The origin of the first temple and of the institutions of Vestal Virgins for its service was attributed to Numa Pompilius.
• The legal rights of a vestal virgin were set forth in detail.
• For woman is by nature the vestal of our species, and for that reason she must be more conservative, more circumspect, and more virtuous than man.
• Amulius took possession of the throne, and made Rea Silvia, the daughter of Numitor, a vestal virgin, in order that the Silvian house might become extinct.
• The institution of vestal virgins was older than the city itself, and was regarded by the Romans as the most sacred part of their religious system.
• He seemed apprehensive of his approaching end, for he made his will, and delivered it to the vestal virgins.
• Thirty men were killed and wounded on board the Vestal.
• At that time a congress packet was taken by the Vestal frigate off the banks of Newfoundland, as it was steering its course towards Holland.
• As a vestal, she has kept alive the fire of patriotism on the altar of her country.
• Besides, Arras without the Hearts would be like the Altar of the Vestal Virgins without the ever-burning lamp.
• She is the vestal virgin who, so far as she can, prevents them from going out.
• The brig Vestal sent another pirate schooner to New-Providence.
• The same is the case with a daughter, unless she becomes a Vestal Virgin, or unless she marries according to the stricter of the two kinds of matrimony already described.
• If those embers, so religiously guarded, should by chance have been extinguished, there could never have been a Vestal fire nor any Rome.
• Fabia the Vestal was now about thirty-seven years of age.
• Much marvelling at the visit of a Vestal, the slave obeyed, and in a few moments that tribune was in her presence.
• A Vestal Virgin take refuge on a pirate ship! But it was a matter of life and death now, and there was no time for forming another plan.
• He lifted in Fabia likewise, but the Vestal only bowed her head in calm silence.
• It had been no vestal who chose THAT missile for opening her attack on him.

Similar words containing VEST without suffix al

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