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Revest vs Reves - What's the difference?

revest | reves |

As a verb revest

is to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.

As a noun reves is

plural of reve.

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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