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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of revest.

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Examples

  • WHEREAS, upon such dissolution, title to the property revested in the Town of Dryden

    Living in Dryden: West Dryden Road Church 2004

  • WHEREAS, upon such dissolution, title to the property revested in the Town of Dryden

    Living in Dryden: January 2004 Archives 2004

  • Always he was casting about for a course of action which would give him scope for two things upon which his mind was set: to get the title to that six hundred acres revested in the MacRae name, and, in Jack's own words to Dolores Ferrara, to take a fall out of Horace Gower that would jar the bones of his ancestors.

    Poor Man's Rock Bertrand W. Sinclair 1926

  • Among the deeds transmitted to me by the Board from Raleigh are also sundry reconveyances of large tracts in Tyrrell Co; one in particular, for 40,000 acres on the west Side of Aligator River and east Side of Aligator Lake, and a second for 22,000 acres of revested land lying near Pungo Lake -- known as Jones and Davis Patent.

    The Beginnings of Public Education in North Carolina; A Documentary History, 1790-1840. Vol. II Charles Lee 1908

  • S. Omer then, which recked not for that, lifted himself up and revested on him his habit and gloves, and thanked much S. Morant, and said to him that he should obey the king, for thereto he was holden, and that as for him he should obey to our Lord and should bear in all patience his adversities, and that gladly he would go with him thereas he was ordained for to go.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • Now it is so that Jesu Christ brought us out of this exile in the sixth age, in hope of perpetual life of all them that be revested with the vesture of innocence.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 1 1230-1298 1900

  • He revested right courteously the poor naked of our Lord.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • Ever before the celebration of his mass, ere he revested him, he kneeled down before the altar, and devoutly made his prayer, weeping and piteously sighing, and oft-times as he celebrated his mass plenty of tears fell from his eyes along his face.

    The Golden Legend, vol. 7 1230-1298 1900

  • He became, by purchase of the Duke of Albemarle, posessed of the right as one of the Lord's Propietors of the Province, which in 1729, revested in the crownh.

    Reminiscences and Memoirs of North Carolina and Eminent North Carolinians John Hill 1884

  • It was soon found that Sir George Arthur had thrown himself into the hands of the oligarchy on the question of the clergy reserves -- he would not consent to have them applied to any other purpose than the support of the clergy, and was anxious to have them revested in the Crown.

    The Story of My Life Being Reminiscences of Sixty Years' Public Service in Canada Egerton Ryerson 1842

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