Regest vs Revest - What's the difference?
regest | revest |
(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:
To return (property) to a former owner; to reinstate
To invest again with possession or office.
In obsolete terms the difference between regest and revest
is that regest is a register while revest is to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.As a noun regest
is a register.As a verb revest is
to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.revest
English
Verb
(en verb)- Her nathelesse / Th'enchaunter finding fit for his intents, / Did thus reuest , and deckt with due habiliments.
- to revest a magistrate with authority