Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A visible trace, evidence, or sign of something that once existed but exists or appears no more.
- noun Biology A rudimentary or degenerate, usually nonfunctioning, structure that is the remnant of an organ or part that was fully developed or functioning in a preceding generation or an earlier stage of development.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A footprint; a footstep; a track; a trace; hence, a mark, impression, or appearance of something which is no longer present or in existence; a sensible evidence or visible sign of something absent, lost, or perished; remains of something passed away.
- noun In biology, any vestigial organ or tissue, having little or no utility, but corresponding to a useful part existing in some lower animal. See
vestigial and rudiment, 3.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; hence, a faint mark or visible sign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present; remains.
- noun (Biol.) A small, degenerate, or imperfectly developed part or organ which has been more fully developed in some past generation.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The
mark of the foot left on the earth; a track or footstep; a trace; a sign; - noun A faint
mark or visiblesign left by something which is lost, or has perished, or is no longer present;remains . - noun biology a
vestigial organ ; a non-functionalorgan orbody part that was once functional in anevolutionary ancestor
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun an indication that something has been present
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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From here, as from the Sassi Bianco, one sees its true form and its actual summit; while of the one no idea can be formed, and of the other no vestige is visible, from either the Tre Sassi or the Fedaja.
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I think think the same goes for the word vestige ...
Political Animal 2009
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But these daggers, his only arms, were broken by the sword of Holagou, and not a vestige is left of the enemies of mankind, except the word assassin, which, in the most odious sense, has been adopted in the languages of Europe.
The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire 1206
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Israel will have to be careful not to give the impression that it is hampering Obama’s foreign policy, like a kind of vestige from the Bush period.
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Israel will have to be careful not to give the impression that it is hampering Obama’s foreign policy, like a kind of vestige from the Bush period.
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Thus Intellectual-Principle is a vestige of the Supreme; but since the vestige is a Form going out into extension, into plurality, that Prior, as the source of Form, must be itself without shape and Form: if the Prior were
The Six Enneads. Plotinus 1952
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You can find traditional models or some very interesting solutions like the splendid "vestige" model shown in the picture on the right you can buy it at less than 300$...35% less than normal retail price!
Archive 2008-10-01 2008
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The owner of the company that owns the mine, the International Coal Group, is holding out hope, any kind of vestige of hope that these 13 miners are still alive.
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I wondered whether it was some kind of vestige of Catholic theology from their education system. or "some class of vestige of Catholic theology".
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But a creature is called a vestige based on properties which point to God as triple cause “ efficient, formal, and final cause; for example, the properties: one, true, and good.” [
Amputee 2009
rolig commented on the word vestige
A word I want to remember when I have to translate the Slovene sled, as an alternative to trace, which has become overused in post-Derridean theoretical writings.
September 6, 2010
shanvrolijk commented on the word vestige
"Adhering adhere'>adhere to a view of history as a teleological climb by humanity to greater and greater heights of rationality, they see religion as an irrational vestige of a more primitive mankind. "
Source: The most avid believers in artificial intelligence are aggressively secular – yet their language is eerily religious. Why?
January 22, 2018