devest
English
Etymology
From Middle French devester (“strip of possessions”), from Old French desvestir, from des- (“dis-”) + vestir (“to clothe”)
Verb
devest (third-person singular simple present devests, present participle devesting, simple past and past participle devested)
- To divest; to undress.
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Shakespeare to this entry?)
- (law, transitive) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
- (law, intransitive) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
Related terms
- divest
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for devest in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- steved, vested
Serbo-Croatian
Numeral
devest (Cyrillic spelling девест)
- (colloquial) ninety
Synonyms
- devedeset (Standard)