Dictionary

revest en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ɹiːˈvɛst/ (UK)
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From Anglo-Norman revestir, revestre et al., Middle French revestir, and their source, Late Latin revestire, from Latin re- + to clothe.

Meanings

1. (obsolete) To dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
2. To reclothe; to dress again.
   • Her nathelesse / Th'enchaunter finding fit for his intents, / Did thus reuest, and deckt with due habiliments. 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto I”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
3. To return (property) to a former owner; to reinstate
4. To invest again with possession or office.
   • to revest a magistrate with authority
5. (intransitive) To take effect again.

Forms