revest

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UK/ɹiːˈvɛst/

verb

To dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.

“to revest a magistrate with authority”

OriginAnglo-Norman revestir ← Middle French revestir ← Late Latin revestire →
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Meanings

verbrevest (third-person singular simple present revests, present participle revesting, simple past and past participle revested)

present singular third person revests · participle present revesting · participle past revested · past revested

  1. obsoleteTo 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. intransitiveTo take effect again.

Synonyms & antonyms

Also see
restorereturnrevert

Origin

  1. Latinre-
  2. Late Latinrevestire
  3. Middle Frenchrevestir
  4. Anglo-Normanrevestir
  5. Englishrevest

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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Rhymes & wordplay

Rhymes with revest

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Anagrams

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APA

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MLA

“revest.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revest. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “revest,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/revest.

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