Noah Webster
Revest
REVEST', verb transitive [Low Latin revestio; re and vestio, to clothe.]
1. to clothe again.
2. To reinvest; to vest again with possession or office; as, to revest a magistrate with authority.
3. to lay out in something less fleeting than money; as, to revest money in stocks.
REVEST', verb intransitive to take effect again, as a title; to return to a former owner; as, the title or right revest in A, after alienation.