Vestry is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VESTRY in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a room in which vestments are kept, also REVESTRY
• a room or building attached to a church, used as an office and for changing into ceremonial vestments.
• a meeting of parishioners, originally in a vestry, for the conduct of parochial business.
• room in a church used as an office by the priest or minister
• A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
• A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
• A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
• in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
• a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held

Words related to VESTRY

revestry14 vestral10 vestries11

Words that contain VESTRY

revestry14 vestryman17 vestrymen17

How to use VESTRY in a sentence

• Catherick satisfied me that Sir Percival was not the father of Anne, and that their secret meeting in the vestry had reference to some object other than romance.
• Towards the close of the service, the minister would leave his pulpit, and, during the singing of a hymn, would presently emerge from his vestry in a long waterproof garment.
• At length he descried a glimmer of light issuing from a door which he knew to be that of the vestry, and which was standing slightly ajar.
• He was about to Call Off the Vestry Meeting, the Dinner, and all other Engagements for a Week to come, but Jim would not Listen to it.
• As I entered by the vestry door I noticed the tower was fairly all right, but that was about the only part that was.
• But instead of this the vestry, which exercised the chief authority in the parish, was composed of twelve chosen men.
• On entering his crowded vestry, he soon observed John, sitting upon the front seat.
• John, which now forms the vestry, and the chapel of the Virgin Mary, or Our Lady.
• I must go home and get some plans before I attend the vestry meeting about that pinnacle.
• Promise to drink a bottle every Sunday in the vestry before you come out to preach, and I will take a pew for the season in your church.
• The first two bays on the south were built at the last restoration the vestry then removed not being part of the original design.
• On the south both nave and chancel have a single aisle, the transept projecting beyond it and there is a vestry at the east end.
• The present choir vestry on the north side was the Lady Chapel.
• There is a finely vaulted crypt under the altar and over the fourteenth century vestry is an interesting library where the books were once chained to the shelves.
• Of the runaways, reports were made to the parish vestry of those lying out at the end of each quarter.
• The curate complied by inviting the two visitors to walk into the vestry.
• The class met in the vestry of the United Presbyterian Church there.
• Bishop walked to the door of the vestry that opened on to the little country lane.
• The clergyman, waiting like me, was requested to return to the vestry.
• The Relief Committee was organizing in Park Street Vestry.
• The chancel of the church is a fine specimen of perpendicular style, with a vestry of the same date, and of two stories, with a fireplace in each.
• Followed the withdrawal into the vestry for the signing of the register, when everybody seemed to be kissing everybody else with considerable lack of discrimination.
• He came in through the vestry, and looking to the west end gallery saw there the back of old Dr.
• This vestry is of Decorated date, possibly rather later than the other Decorated work in the minster.
• But these gay and lowly ways will not escape a vestry.
• Finally, after much debate and no conclusion, Washington appeared at a vestry meeting with a collection of statistics.
• The members of the vestry and also the justices of the county court were not elected by the people, as the town officers were in New England.
• There are also five carved figures on the vestry cupboard, which are possibly the five Wise Virgins.
• The Pastor received him very courteously below and conducted his aristocratic acquaintance into the vestry, in order to let him outdoors from there.
• The next evening the singers met in the vestry, to practise the tunes for the Sabbath.
• The vestry door was closed, and nobody was inside the chancel rail.

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