Revest vs Ravest - What's the difference?
revest | ravest |
(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.
(archaic) (rave)
An enthusiastic review (such as of a play).
An all-night dance party filled with electronic dance music (techno, trance, drum and bass etc.) and possibly drug use.
(uncountable) The genre of electronic dance music associated with rave parties.
* 2009 , Chrysalis Experiential Academy, Mind Harvesting (page 109)
To wander in mind or intellect; to be delirious; to talk or act irrationally; to be wild, furious, or raging.
* Addison
* Macaulay
To speak or write wildly or incoherently.
* 1748 , David Hume, Enquiry concerning Human Understanding , Section 3. ยง 5.
To talk with unreasonable enthusiasm or excessive passion or excitement; followed by about'', ''of'', or (formerly) ''on .
* Byron
(obsolete) To rush wildly or furiously.
To attend a rave (dance party).
One of the upper side pieces of the frame of a wagon body or a sleigh.
(Webster 1913)
As verbs the difference between revest and ravest
is that revest is (obsolete) to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate mass or another service while ravest is (archaic) (rave).revest
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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
Anagrams
*ravest
English
Verb
(head)rave
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) raver, variant of resver, of uncertain origin.Noun
(en noun)- Maybe I wear baggies / And white socks with flip-flops / Maybe I don't like listening to rave / And I'm not on the social mountaintops
Verb
(rav)- Have I not cause to rave and beat my breast?
- The mingled torrent of redcoats and tartans went raving down the valley to the gorge of Killiecrankie.
- A production without design would resemble more the ravings of a madman, than the sober efforts of genius and learning.
- He raved about her beauty.
- The hallowed scene / Which others rave on, though they know it not.
- (Spenser)