† ˈvestigy Obs.
[a. older F. vestigie, or ad. L. vestīgium vestige: see -y.]
A vestige or trace.
| 1545 Joye Exp. Dan. i. 13 b, In that cite yet..there remaineth the temple of Iupiters image,..or els is there no nother memoriall or skant any vestigie thereof. Ibid. x. 169 b, It behowued not one stone vpon another nor vestigie of the temple to stand and remaine. 1637 Gillespie Eng. Pop. Cerem. iii. viii. 192 The Canon Law it self hath some vestigies of the auncient order. 1644 Digby Nat. Bodies xxxvi. §13. 317 We see how the doubting, the resoluing,..and the like, which we experience in beasts, may by the vestigies we haue traced out, be followed vnto their roote. |