revest

Definitions


[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- More generally: to clothe, apparel, attire (literal and figurative).

- (reflexive). To clothe oneself again.

- To dress oneself again.

- To place, settle, or secure (something, as a right, entitlement, property) in the possession of a person or persons, especially for a second or further time; to cause to be vested in someone again.

- To reinvest with authority, ownership, office, right, or entitlement; to reinstate with (also † in, † into) something.

- To be or become reinvested (in a person).


Phrases:

Origin:
Middle English (in an earlier sense). From Anglo-Norman revestier, revester, revestre, Anglo-Norman and Old French, Middle French, French † revestir (now revêtir) to clothe (a person), to array (a priest, monk, or other cleric) in ecclesiastical vestments or clerical habit, to put on (a garment), to dress (a person) again, to assume, take the form of (something), to assume (a quality or character), (of a right, property, etc.) to become established (in a person) again, to invest or endow (a person) with (a right, property, etc.) and its etymon post-classical Latin revestire to cover or adorn as if with clothing (early 3rd century in Tertullian), to put on again, to clothe again, to reinvest, repossess from classical Latin re- + vestīre to clothe


[], (Verb)

Definitions:
- (Chiefly in passive). = "revet".


Phrases:

Origin:
late 17th century. Variant of revet, influenced by French † revestir, and also by vest




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