1. Pertaining to Vesta, the goddess of fire among the Romans, and a virgin.
2. Pure; chaste.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
2. A virgin consecrated to Vesta, and to the service of watching the sacred fire, which was to be perpetually kept burning upon her altar.
Purity Roget’s Thesaurus §960
N. purity, decency, decorum, delicacy, continence, # chastity, honesty, virtue, modesty, shame, pudicity, pucelage, virginity, vestal, virgin, joseph, hippolytus, lucretia, diana, prude
Adj. pure, undefiled, modest, delicate, decent, decorous, virginibus puerisque, simon-pure, chaste, continent, virtuous, honest, platonic, virgin, unsullied, cherry
Phr. "as chaste as unsunn'd snow", "a soul as white as heaven", "'tis chastity, my brother, chastity", "to the pure all things are pure"
No Bible verses found for "vestal".