vestal
vestal is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 2 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 35 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.(Rom. Antiq.) A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar. Note: The Vestals were originally four, but afterward six, in number. Their term of service lasted thirty years, the period of admission being from the sixth to the tenth year of the candidate's age.
- 2.A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! Pope.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- all
- and
- are
- brother
- chaste
- chastity
- cherry
- continence
- continent
- decency
- decent
- decorous
- decorum
- delicacy
- delicate
- heaven
- honest
- honesty
- modest
- modesty
- prude
- pucelage
- pudicity
- pure
- purity
- shame
- simon-pure
- snow
- soul
- the
- virgin
- virginity
- virtue
- virtuous
- white
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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