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Vestal

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.

2. A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun. How happy is the blameless vestal's lot! Pope.

Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2

Part of speech: adjective (a.)

Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.

Noah Webster's American Dictionary of the English Language (1828). Structured JSON vendored from sktzofrenic/webster1828 at commit 5a58d9e0191eefaa51affbc1bb1b8bc5782ba6c0. The upstream README identifies the dictionary text as public domain and the project license as MIT.

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