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Revest vs Devest - What's the difference?

revest | devest |

As verbs the difference between revest and devest

is that revest is to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service while devest is to divest; to undress.

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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    devest

    English

    Verb

    (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==

    Numeral

    (sh-numeral)
  • ninety

    • Synonyms

    * (l) (Standard)