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Devest [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. In law, to be lost or alienated, as a title or an estate.

2. [This word is generally written divest, except in the latter and legal sense.]

Devest [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To strip; to deprive of clothing or arms; to take off.

2. To deprive; to take away; as, to devest a man or nation of rights. [ See Divest .]

3. To free from; to disengage.

4. In law, to alienate, as title or right.

Devest [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To be taken away, lost, or alienated, as a title or an estate.

Devest [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To divest; to undress.

2. To take away, as an authority, title, etc., to deprive; to alienate, as an estate.

Devested [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stripped of clothes; deprived; freed from; alienated or lost, as title.

Devested [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Devesting [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Stripping of clothes; depriving; freeing from ; alienating.

Devesting [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913