Revested vs Retested - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between revested and retested

is that revested is past tense of revest while retested is past tense of retest.

(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

(head)

(retest)

(en noun)

A repeat test.

(en verb)

To test again.

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