Revests vs Retests - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between revests and retests

is that revests is (revest) while retests is (retest).

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(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

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