revestとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ɹiːˈvɛst/

動詞

revest (三人称単数 現在形 revests, 現在分詞 revesting, 過去形および過去分詞形 revested)

1. (obsolete) To dress (a priest または other religious figure) in ritual garments, especially to celebrate Mass or another service.
2. To reclothe; to dress again.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938, book II, canto i:

     Her nathelesse / Th'enchaunter finding fit for his intents, / Did thus reuest, and deckt with due habiliments.

3. To return (property) to a former owner; to reinstate
4. To invest again with possession or office.

   to revest a magistrate with authority