revest

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

REVEST', verb transitive [Low Latin revestio; re and vestio, to clothe.] 1. to clothe again. 2. To reinvest; to vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority. 3. to lay out in something less fleeting than money; as, to revest money in stocks. REVEST', verb intransitive to take effect again, as a title; to return to a former owner; as, the title or right revest in A, after alienation.
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