Obs. [a. older F. vestigie, or ad. L. vestīgium VESTIGE: see -Y.] A vestige or trace.
1545. Joye, Exp. Dan. i. 13 b. In that cite yet … there remaineth the temple of Iupiters image,… or els is there no nother memoriall or skant any vestigie thereof. Ibid., x. 169 b. It behowued not one stone vpon another nor vestigie of the temple to stand and remaine.
1637. Gillespie, Eng. Pop. Cerem., III. viii. 192. The Canon Law it self hath some vestigies of the auncient order.
1644. Digby, Nat. Bodies, xxxvi. § 13. 317. We see how the doubting, the resoluing,… and the like, which we experience in beasts, may by the vestigies we haue traced out, be followed vnto their roote.
