revest
/ɹiːˈvɛst/
revest verb: to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
Verb
revest (third-person singular simple present revests, present participle revesting, simple past and past participle revested)
- To dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
- 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
- To return (property) to a former owner; to reinstate
- To invest again with possession or office.
- to revest a magistrate with authority
- To take effect again.
Forms of revest
| third-person singular present | revests |
|---|---|
| present participle | revesting |
| past participle | revested |
| past | revested |
Origin of revest
From Anglo-Norman revestir, revestre et al., Middle French revestir, and their source, Late Latin revestire, from Latin re- + to clothe.
Words that rhyme with revest
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- attest
- guest
- quest
- bequest
- distressed
- pest
- prest
- request
- west
- wrest
- zest
- contest
- depressed
- dressed
- gest
- impressed
- jest
- suggest
- acid test
- best
- celeste
- divest
- ingest
- molest
- North West
- northwest
- possessed
- pressed
- professed
- southwest
- -cest
- addressed
- behest
- compressed
- congest
- detest
- fest
- infest
- lest
- obsessed
- pretest
- processed
- repressed
- rest.
- stressed
- tressed
- unrest
- unstressed
Questions about revest
- What does revest mean?
- Revest means to dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
- What part of speech is revest?
- Revest is a verb.
- How do you pronounce revest?
- Revest is pronounced /ɹiːˈvɛst/ (UK).
- What is the past tense of revest?
- The past tense of revest is revested.
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