Crossword clues for devest
devest
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Devest \De*vest"\, v. i. (Law) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
Devest \De*vest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Devested; p. pr. & vb. n. Devesting.] [L. devestire to undress; de + vestire to dress: cf. OF. devestir, F. d['e]v[^e]tir. Cf. Divest.]
To divest; to undress.
--Shak.-
To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.
Note: This word is now generally written divest, except in the legal sense.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To divest; to undress. 2 (context legal transitive English) To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate. 3 (context legal intransitive English) To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.
Usage examples of "devest".
Garden, he thought it best to spoyl that as much as he could, and devest it of all its beauty.
And after such location and appraisement so made, the said sheriff shall forthwith return the same under the hands and seals of the said jurors, together with the writ, to the clerk's office of the said county and the right and property of the said proprietors and tenants in the said lands so circumscribed shall be immediately devested and be transferred to the commonwealth for the use of the said grammar school, in full and absolute dominion, any want of consent or disability to consent in the said owners or tenants notwithstanding.
For what can be more unhappy, than for a Man, devested of Senatorian Honours, to be still confin'd to Fatigue and Trouble?
Finally, the Mohican himself reappeared, devested of all his attire, except his girdle and leggings, and with one half of his fine features hid under a cloud of threatening black.
Having gotten out while the getting was good (Enron’s top executives cashed in their chips for $177 million at the same time they were prohibiting lower-level employees from devesting their holdings), Kenneth Lay is building a sprawling mansion (his current home is the entire 33rd floor of a skyscraper) and plays an occasional round of golf at the River Oaks Country Club where membership costs $75,000.