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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Revest

Rē-vĕst', v. t.

verbtransitive

[imp. & p. p. REVESTED; p. pr. & vb. n. REVESTING.] [O. Fr., Pr., Sp., & Pg. revestir, N. Fr. revêtir, It. rivestire, Lat. revestire, from re, again, and vestire, to clothe, from vestis, garment.]

Sense 1. To clothe again.

Her, nathless, . . . the enchanter Did thus revest, and decked with due habiliments. Spenser.

Sense 2. To re-invest; to vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.

Sense 3. To lay out in something less fleeting than money; as, to revest money in stocks.

Rē-vĕst', v. i.

verbintransitive

To take effect again, as a title; to return to a former owner; as, the title or right revests in A, after alienation.