Devests vs Revests - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between devests and revests

is that devests is (devest) while revests is (revest).

(head)

(devest)

(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==

(sh-numeral)

ninety

* (l) (Standard)

(head)

(revest)

(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