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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To invest (someone) again with power or ownership; reinstate.
  • transitive verb To vest (power, for example) once again in a person or an agency.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To reclothe; cover again as with a garment.
  • To invest; robe; clothe, especially in the vestments of state or office.
  • To reinvest; vest again with ownership or office: as, to revesta magistrate with authority.
  • To take possession of again; secure again as a possession or right.
  • To take effect again, as a title; return to a former owner: as, the title or right revests in A after alienation.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb To clothe again; to cover, as with a robe; to robe.
  • transitive verb To vest again with possession or office.
  • intransitive verb To take effect or vest again, as a title; to revert to former owner.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb obsolete To dress (a priest or other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
  • verb To reclothe; to dress again.
  • verb To return (property) to a former owner; to reinstate
  • verb To re-award an office of authority

Etymologies

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

From Anglo-Norman revestier, revestre et al., Middle French revestir, and their source, Late Latin revestire, from Latin re- + vestīre ("to clothe").

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