Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Futile

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

FU'TILE. A vessel with a broad mouth and sharp-pointed bottom, like the annexed example (Futile/1.1), from an original found at Rome. This form was originally adopted for the service of Vesta, in order that the ministers of that goddess might not be able to set it down when filled with water; it being contrary to religious punctilioes that water used in her ceremonies should ever have stood upon the ground. Serv. ad Virg. Aen. xi. 339. Donat. ad Terent. Andr. iii. 5. 3.

• 
  Futile/1.1