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revesting

revesting is the present participle and gerund of revest.

Meaning of revest

Verb

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

  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.

Questions about revesting

What is revesting the present participle and gerund of?
Revesting is the present participle and gerund of revest.

Words near revesting in the dictionary

  1. revesiculation
  2. revest
  3. revested
  4. revestiaries
  5. revestiary
  6. revesting
  7. revestries
  8. revestry
  9. revests
  10. revesture
  11. Revesz syndrome

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