Crossword-Solution: VESTAL
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Vestal | a. | Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste. |
| Vestal | a. | A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar. |
| Vestal | a. | A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| VESTAL | anagram | TVSALE, VALETS |
We have 25 clues for the answer “VESTAL”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Ancient Rome's ___ Virgins | 1 answer |
| virgin Roman | 1 answer |
| ___ virgin (ancient Roman priestess) | 1 answer |
| Watcher of a Roman temple's sacred fire | 1 answer |
| Sacred to the hearth goddess. | 1 answer |
| Roman virgin | 1 answer |
| Relating to a Roman goddess. | 1 answer |
| ROMAN priestess | 1 answer |
| Pure woman | 1 answer |
| Of the hearth goddess | 1 answer |
| Maiden consecrated to the hearth goddess. | 1 answer |
| Consecrated Roman virgin | 1 answer |
| Behaviorally pure | 1 answer |
| Nun, for one | 2 answers |
| Like a Virgin | 6 answers |
| BELLINI'S TITLE PRIESTESS | 10 answers |
| A CHASTE WOMAN | 10 answers |
| Delphi priestess | 10 answers |
| Nun. | 11 answers |
| priestess | 11 answers |
| INNOCENT person | 30 answers |
| Virgin Mary | 32 answers |
| Virgin | 51 answers |
| Chaste | 79 answers |
| Pure | 85 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TREAE
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Sentences with VESTAL (5)
But there is a way some men have, rural and urban alike—for which the mind is more responsible than flesh and sinew—a way of curtailing their dimensions by their manner of showing them; and from a quiet modesty that would have become a vestal, which seemed continually to impress upon him that he had no great claim on the world’s room, Oak walked unassumingly, and with a faintly perceptible bend, quite distinct from a bowing of the shoulders.
Chapter I “A fair vestal, throned in the west” Elfride Swancourt was a girl whose emotions lay very near the surface.
The books are not nearly so numerous as those connected with range life, but when one considers the writings of Stanley Vestal, Sabin, Ruxton, Fer gusson, Chittenden, Favour, Garrard, Inman, Irving, Reid, and White in this Seld, one doubts whether any other form of American life at all has been so well covered in ballad, fiction, biography, history.
They come not now to print the lea, In freak and dance around the tree, Or at the mushroom board to sup, And drink the dew from the buttercup;-- A scene of sorrow waits them now, For an Ouphe has broken his vestal vow; He has loved an earthly maid, And left for her his woodland shade; He has lain upon her lip of dew, And sunned him in her eye of blue, Fann'd her cheek with his wing of air, Played in the ringlets of her hair, And, nestling on her snowy breast, Forgot the lily-king's behest.
When Wain's attentions became obviously personal, Rena's new vestal instinct took alarm, and she began to apprehend his character more clearly.
Quotes with VESTAL (3)
Not the slow Hearse, where nod the sable plumes, The Parian Statue, bending o'er the Urn, The dark robe floating, the dejection worn On the dropt eye, and lip no smile illumes; Not all this pomp of sorrow, that presumes It pays Affection's debt, is due concern To the FOR EVER ABSENT, tho' it mourn Fashion's allotted time. If Time consumes, While Life is ours, the precious vestal-flame Memory shou'd hourly feed; — if, thro' each day, She with whate'er we see, hear, think, or s…
It never meant anything, Moses says. Not to the god above it and not to the earth below it. It never did. Not even when they first did it. But it’s the doin it that counts. It’s something. You draw imaginary lines. That’s what you do. The Vestal looks at him kindly, a smile on her lips that seems affectionate--even maybe admiring. Then what do you do with the lines? she asks. And Moses looks at her straight and true. He says: Then you pick one side or the other and you stand there.
ROMEO :'Tis torture and not mercy. Heaven is here, Where Juliet lives, and every cat and dog And little mouse, every unworthy thing, Live here in heaven and may look on her, But Romeo may not. More validity, More honorable state, more courtship lives In carrion flies than Romeo. They may seize On the white wonder of dear Juliet’s hand And steal immortal blessing from her lips, Who even in pure and vestal modesty, Still blush, as thinking their own kisses sin. But Romeo may no…
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Appears in: Crossroads, CrosSynergy, LAT, Newsday, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 29 times in crossword archives (1951–2024).