What's the difference between festal and vestal?

Festal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to a holiday or a feast; joyous; festive.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The preparations with the highest lipase activities were llozyme, 3600, Kuzyme HP, 2330, Festal, 2073, Cotazym, 2014, and Viokase, 1636 units.
  • (2) By its lipolytic action nigedase is more active than festal.

Vestal


Definition:

  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Vesta, the virgin goddess of the hearth; hence, pure; chaste.
  • (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.
  • (a.) A virgin; a woman pure and chaste; also, a nun.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "And by then, I'll have all the suppressed prejudices of having spent four years as a vestal virgin."
  • (2) The ancient Greeks had Pythia, their Delphic Oracle; the Romans had their Vestal Virgins and, in Live and Let Die , Dr Kananga had his Solitaire.
  • (3) Despite the disintegration of their politics and economy, the Greeks can still muster a crew of vestal virgins to light and nurture the Olympic flame .
  • (4) Phytochemical examination of the fresh bulbs of Lilium speciosum forma vestale has led to the isolation of a new phenolic glycoside and a new steroidal saponin.
  • (5) The results of conventional agar dilution (Vestal, 1975) and a modified radiometric (BACTEC) method were compared.
  • (6) I've had to become a vestal virgin again after a not entirely pure political past."

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