Definition of vest

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Vest (n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death..

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Unwonder :: Unwonder (v. t.) To divest of the quality of wonder or mystery; to interpret; to explain.
Impersonification :: Impersonification (n.) The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
Fundholder :: Fundholder (a.) One who has money invested in the public funds.
Vest :: Vest (n.) Any outer covering; array; garb.
Travestied :: Travestied (imp. & p. p.) of Travest.
Uncowl :: Uncowl (v. t.) To divest or deprive of a cowl.
Unbreech :: Unbreech (v. t.) To remove the breeches of; to divest or strip of breeches.
Despoil :: Despoil (v. t.) To strip, as of clothing; to divest or unclothe..
Zend-avesta :: Zend-Avesta (n.) The sacred writings of the ancient Persian religion, attributed to Zoroaster, but chiefly of a later date..
Zend :: Zend (n.) Properly, the translation and exposition in the Huzv/resh, or literary Pehlevi, language, of the Avesta, the Zoroastrian sacred writings; as commonly used, the language (an ancient Persian dialect) in which the Avesta is written..
Penitentiary :: Penitentiary (n.) An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him..
Organum :: Organum (n.) An organ or instrument; hence, a method by which philosophical or scientific investigation may be conducted; -- a term adopted from the Aristotelian writers by Lord Bacon, as the title (Novum Organon) of part of his treatise on philosophical method..
Reinvest :: Reinvest (v. t.) To invest again or anew.
Uncarnate :: Uncarnate (v. t.) To divest of flesh.
Revest :: Revest (v. t.) To vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority..
Chronologer :: Chronologer (n.) A person who investigates dates of events and transactions; one skilled in chronology.
Embark :: Embark (v. t.) To engage, enlist, or invest (as persons, money, etc.) in any affair; as, he embarked his fortune in trade..
Tunicle :: Tunicle (n.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons..
Unvulgarize :: Unvulgarize (v. t.) To divest of vulgarity; to make to be not vulgar.
Slashed :: Slashed (a.) Marked or cut with a slash or slashes; deeply gashed; especially, having long, narrow openings, as a sleeve or other part of a garment, to show rich lining or under vesture..
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