Revest vs Revet - What's the difference?
revest | revet |
(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.
To face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.
(Etymology 2 )
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As verbs the difference between revest and revet
is that revest is to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service while revet is to face, as an embankment, with masonry, wood, or other material.revest
English
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
