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.)

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Example Sentences

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revest

His motion was to revest the reserves in the crown for religious purposes, but it was negatived by a vote of 30 to 7.

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

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 Alexander Smith

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 J. George (John George) Hodgins

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

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

They said, Thou revest upon the person thou lovest.

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

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