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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of devest.

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Examples

  • You're such an awesome actor, and I was devested when I heard that JT would be the one who died in Season Six and I assume everyone else was too.

    Ask DEGRASSI’S Ryan Cooley a Question | the TV addict 2007

  • The Queen, where you are at in London, does reign by divine right even though her ancestors wrongly devested themselves of that right.

    The prostitute that calls itself 'democracy'! de Brantigny........................ 2008

  • Fixed air, or carbonic acid gas, consists of about twenty-five parts of oxygen, and nine of carbon, devested of the mucilage and yest that rises with it.

    The American Practical Brewer and Tanner Joseph Coppinger

  • Whiteley's passions were so lively, and bad habit had so devested him of all control over his tongue that he would d-- n and curse his actors, and call them foul names, even during the performance of the stage, and that too so loud that the audience would frequently hear him.

    The Mirror of Taste, and Dramatic Censor, Vol. I, No. 5, May 1810

  • For what can be more unhappy, than for a Man, devested of Senatorian Honours, to be still confin'd to Fatigue and Trouble?

    Pliny's Epistles in Ten Books: Volume 1, Books 1-6 Pliny 1723

  • Im new to the group but I wanted to let everyone know that Galveston was devested by Hurricane Ike.

    LifeTwo - Comments 2009

  • That evening, any tax haven-bound CEOs are rounded up at various golf courses, devested of their top hats, and corralled onto a small prison island off of the Dominican Republic.

    The Morning News 2009

  • Im new to the group but I wanted to let everyone know that Galveston was devested by Hurricane Ike.

    LifeTwo - Comments 2008

  • Page view page image: dressed leather. they sometimes make bows of the Elk's horn and those also of the bighorn. those of the Elk's horn are made of a single peice and covered on the back with glue and sinues like those made of wood, and are frequently ornamented with a stran [d] wrought [of] porcupine quills and sinues raped around them for some distance at both extremities. the bows of the bighorn are formed of small peices laid flat and cemented with gleue, and rolled with siniws, after which, they are also covered on the back with sinews and glew, and highly ornamented as they are much prized. forming the sheild is a cerimony of great importance among them, this implement would in their minds be devested of much of its protecting power were it not inspired with those virtues by their old men and jugglers. their method of preparing it is thus, an entire skin of a bull buffaloe two years old is first provided; a feast is next prepared and all the warriors old men and jugglers invited to partake. a hole is sunk in the ground about the same in diameter with the intended sheild and about

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

  • Page view page image: two of the women nearly gave out and the young fellow with the gun from their frequent crys slackened his pace and being on a very fleet horse road around the women at a little distance at length Drewer overtook the women and by signs convinced them that he did not wish to hirt them they then halted and the young fellow approached still nearer, he asked him for his gun but the only part of the answer which he could understand was pahkee which he knew to be the name by which they called their enimies. watching his opportunity when the fellow was off his guard he suddonly rode along side of him seized his gun and wrest [ed] her out of his hands. the fellow finding Drewyer too strong for him and discovering that he must yeald the gun had p [r] esents of mind to open the pan and cast the priming before he let the gun escape from his hands; now finding himself devested of the gun he turned his horse about and laid whip leaving the women to follow him as well as they could.

    Original journals of the Lewis and Clark Expedition, 1804-1806 1904

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