revest

American  

[ree-vest] / riˈvɛst /

verb (used with object)

1. to vest (a person) again, as with ownership or office; reinvest; reinstate.

2. to vest (powers, office, etc.) again.

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verb (used without object)

1. to become vested again in a person; go back again to a former owner.

revest British  

/ riːˈvɛst /

verb

1. (often foll by in) to restore (former power, authority, status, etc, to a person) or (of power, authority, etc) to be restored

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Etymology

Origin of revest

1555–65; re- + vest (v.)

Example Sentences

They said, Thou revest upon the person thou lovest, iv.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 10 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

A day or two before the publication of this document, the House of Assembly went into Committee on a Bill to revest the reserves in the Imperial Parliament!

From The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada by Hodgins, J. George (John George)

Ere Phoebus was in purple cape revest,   Up raise the lark, the heaven's minstrel fine   In May, in till a morrow mirthfullest.

From Dreamthorp A Book of Essays Written in the Country by Smith, Alexander

They said, Thou revest upon the person thou lovest.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night — Volume 04 by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir

Like others for our spoils shall we return;   But not that any one may them revest,   For 'tis not just to have what one casts off.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth