revest
Valid in Scrabble
- Scrabble points
- 9
- Words With Friends
- 10
- Letters
- 6
Definition of revest
5 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included
verb
- (obsolete)To dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
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verb
- (obsolete)To dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
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To reclothe; to dress again.
“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
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To invest again with possession or office.
“to revest a magistrate with authority”
- (intransitive)To take effect again.
Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.
Etymology
From Anglo-Norman revestir, revestre et al., Middle French revestir, and their source, Late Latin revestire, from Latin re- + to clothe.
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