(n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary.
(n.) A parochial assembly; an assembly of persons who manage parochial affairs; -- so called because usually held in a vestry.
(n.) A body, composed of wardens and vestrymen, chosen annually by a parish to manage its temporal concerns.
Example Sentences:
(1) As previously described with other fluoroquinolones (D. Raoult, M. Drancourt, and G. Vestris, Antimicrob.
(2) We used the shell-vial technique (D. Raoult, G. Vestris, and M. Enea, J. Clin.
(3) I had written other parts of the book in some uncomfortable places: the cold cobwebbed vestry of my parents'-in-law's local church, to which my mother-in-law had the key; the attic of another, earlier house whose stairs were so narrow for my increasingly pregnant body that it seemed possible I might one day get permanently stuck up there.
(4) They charged their mobile phones there and we were taking hot water over to the vestry and to people's flats, people who had young children.
(5) The ancient church has a 19th-century vestry whose walls are lined from floor to ceiling with thousands of cockle shells, the pilgrim emblem of St James.
Vestryman
Definition:
(n.) A member of a vestry; especially (Prot. Epis. Ch.), a member other than a warden. See Vestry.