vasty

English

Adjective

vasty (comparative vastier, superlative vastiest)

vast
- c. 1597, William Shakespeare, “The First Part of Henry the Fourth, […]”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals):
  , III.i
  I can call spirits from the vasty deep.
- 1919, W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence, ch. 7
  […] the pattern of life it offers has a homely grace. It reminds you of a placid rivulet, meandering smoothly through green pastures and shaded by pleasant trees, till at last it falls into the vasty sea; […]

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