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Devested vs Revested - What's the difference?

devested | revested |

As verbs the difference between devested and revested

is that devested is past tense of devest while revested is past tense of revest.

devested

English

Verb

(head)
  • (devest)

    • devest

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To divest; to undress.
    • (Shakespeare)
  • (legal) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
  • (legal) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
    • (Webster 1913) ---- ==Serbo-Croatian==

    Numeral

    (sh-numeral)
  • ninety

    • Synonyms

    * (l) (Standard)

    revested

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (revest)

    • revest

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • (obsolete) To dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
  • To reclothe; to dress again.
  • * 1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , II.i:
    • Her nathelesse / Th'enchaunter finding fit for his intents, / Did thus reuest , and deckt with due habiliments.
  • To return (property) to a former owner; to reinstate
  • To invest again with possession or office.
    • to revest a magistrate with authority

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