Reverted vs Revested - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between reverted and revested

is that reverted is past tense of revert while revested is past tense of revest.

is that has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).

(head)

(revert)

(en adjective)

That has gone back (to an earlier place, state etc.).

Bent back, reversed.

Directed backwards.

* 1795 , Samuel Taylor Coleridge, ‘Lines composed while climbing the left ascent of Brockley Coomb’:

With many a pause and oft reverted eye / I climb the Coomb's ascent [...].

(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