vested
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
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.]
1. To clothe with, or as with, a vestment, or garment; to
dress; to robe; to cover, surround, or encompass closely.
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Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
--Milton.
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With ether vested, and a purple sky. --Dryden.
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2. 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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Had I been vested with the monarch's power. --Prior.
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3. 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.
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Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
--Locke.
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4. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or
houses. [R.]
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5. (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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Vested \Vest"ed\, a.
1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. "The vested priest."
--Milton.
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2. (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed;
as, vested rights; vested interests.
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{Vested legacy} (Law), a legacy the right to which commences
in praesenti, 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.
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from
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
79 Moby Thesaurus words for "vested":
appareled, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, chausse,
clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, confirmed, costumed, decked,
deep-dyed, deep-engraven, deep-fixed, deep-grounded, deep-laid,
deep-rooted, deep-seated, deep-set, deep-settled, dight, disguised,
dressed, dyed-in-the-wool, embedded, embossed, endued, engrafted,
engraved, entrenched, established, etched, firmly established,
garbed, garmented, gowned, graven, habilimented, habited, hooded,
implanted, impressed, imprinted, indelibly impressed, infixed,
ingrained, ingrown, invested, inveterate, inwrought, liveried,
long-established, mantled, old-line, on a rock, on bedrock,
pantalooned, raimented, rigged out, robed, rooted, set, settled,
shod, shoed, stabilized, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered,
vestmented, well-established, well-founded, well-grounded,
well-set, well-settled
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