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vested
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Vest \Vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Vested; p. pr. & vb. n. Vesting.] [Cf. L. vestire, vestitum, OF. vestir, F. v[^e]tir. See Vest, n.]
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To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
--Milton.With ether vested, and a purple sky.
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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.
Had I been vested with the monarch's power.
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To place or give into the possession or discretion of some person or authority; to commit to another; -- with in before the possessor; as, the power of life and death is vested in the king, or in the courts.
Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
--Locke. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses. [R.]
(Law) To clothe with possession; as, to vest a person with an estate; also, to give a person an immediate fixed right of present or future enjoyment of; as, an estate is vested in possession.
--Bouvier.
Vested \Vest"ed\, a.
Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. ``The vested priest.''
--Milton.-
(Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
Vested legacy (Law), a legacy the right to which commences in pr[ae]senti, and does not depend on a contingency; as, a legacy to one to be paid when he attains to twenty-one years of age is a vested legacy, and if the legatee dies before the testator, his representative shall receive it.
--Blackstone.Vested remainder (Law), an estate settled, to remain to a determined person, after the particular estate is spent.
--Blackstone.
--Kent.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"established, secured, settled, not in a state of contingency," 1766, past participle adjective from vest (v.).
Wiktionary
1 (context legal English) settled, fixed or absolute, with no contingencies. 2 dressed or clothed, especially in vestments. v
(en-past of: vest)
WordNet
adj. fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right"
Wikipedia
Usage examples of "vested".
Our opponents after first admitting the unity go on to make our soul dependent on something else, something in which we have no longer the soul of this or that, even of the universe, but a soul of nowhere, a soul belonging neither to the kosmos, nor to anything else, and yet vested with all the function inherent to the kosmic soul and to that of every ensouled thing.
Consequently in proceedings before a legislative court which are judicial in nature and admit of a final judgment the Supreme Court may be vested with appellate jurisdiction.
United States should be at all times, vested either in an original or appellate form, in some courts created under its authority.
The Order cited no specific statutory authorization, but invoked generally the powers vested in the President by the Constitution and laws of the United States.
During this session an act was passed, by which the secular jurisdiction of the county palatine of Durham, with all forfeitures, mines, treasure trove, and other rights belonging to that authority, were transferred from the bishop of the diocess and vested in the crown.
For the faithful execution of such laws the President has back of him not only each general law-enforcement power conferred by the various acts of Congress but the aggregate of all such laws plus that wide discretion as to method vested in him by the Constitution for the purpose of executing the laws.
United States is conferred by other provisions of the Constitution, such as those which declare the extent of the judicial power of the United States, which authorize all legislation necessary and proper for executing the powers vested by the Constitution in the Government of the United States, and which declare the supremacy of the authority of the National Government within the limits of the Constitution.
Consequently, the door was opened to other federally chartered corporations to go into the federal courts after the act of 1875 vested original jurisdiction generally in the lower courts of such questions.
The later charter, for instance, although in the main lines following the older charter, makes no mention of Middlesex being let to ferm nor of any appointment of sheriff or justiciar being vested in the citizens.
Soul can go guiltless if our mentation and reasoning are vested in it: for all this lower kind of knowledge is delusion and is the cause of much of what is evil.
But there is a difficulty in understanding how the Soul can go guiltless if our mentation and reasoning are vested in it: for all this lower kind of knowledge is delusion and is the cause of much of what is evil.
The whole power of spoken language is vested in the invariableness with which certain symbols are associated with certain ideas.
God, that the political sovereignty is vested in the people or the collective body, that the civil rulers hold from God through them and are responsible to Him through them, and justiciable by them, there is all the guaranty against the abuse of power by the, nation, the political or organic people, that the nature of the case admits.
But on matters of provenance, vested interest and lexicographic inconsistencies, they have much in common.
War between the States an impressive body of coherent doctrine protective of vested rights but claiming little direct support from written constitutional texts.