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revests

revests is the third-person singular simple present indicative 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 revests

What is revests the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Revests is the third-person singular simple present indicative of revest.

Words near revests in the dictionary

  1. revestiaries
  2. revestiary
  3. revesting
  4. revestries
  5. revestry
  6. revests
  7. revesture
  8. Revesz syndrome
  9. revet
  10. reveted
  11. revetement

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