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Retest vs Revest - What's the difference?

retest | revest |

As verbs the difference between retest and revest

is that retest is to test again while revest is to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.

As a noun retest

is a repeat test.

retest

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • A repeat test.

    • Verb

    (en verb)
  • To test again.

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    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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