0 in a way that has almost disappeared, or that is a small remaining part of something:
He failed to show the battlefield bravery that is vestigially expected of men.
The British Empire now exists only vestigially.
The emotional connection of his best work was only vestigially evident.
The practice persisted until at least 1400, and vestigially for much longer still.
No responsible person wants to say a word which will, even vestigially, bring racial conflict nearer.
Nouns have three grammatical numbers: singular, dual (vestigially) and plural.
In the 19th century, perfection survived only vestigially as a general expression of approval.
It maintains several distinct cases: the nominative, accusative, genitive, dative and (vestigially) instrumental.
