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Vest
King James Dictionary
or VEST, n. L. vestis, a coat or garment vestio, to cover or clothe.
1. An outer garment.
Over his lucid arms a military vest of purple flow'd.
2. In common speech, a man's under garment a short garment covering the body, but without sleeves, worn under the coat called also waistcoat.
VEST,
1. To clothe to cover, surround or encompass closely.
With ether vested and a purple sky.
2. To dress to clothe with a long garment as the vested priest.
To vest with, to clothe to furnish with to invest with as, to vest a man with authority to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death to vest one with the right of seizing slave ships.
Had I been vested with the monarch's pow'r.
To vest in, to put in possession of to furnish with to clothe with. The supreme executive power in England is vested in the king in the United States, it is vested in the president.
2. To clothe with another form to convert into another substance or species of property as, to vest money in goods to vest money in land or houses to vest money in bank stock, or in six per cent stock to vest all one's property in the public funds.
VEST, To come or descend to to be fixed to take effect, as a title or right. Upon the death of the ancestor, the estate, or the right to the estate, vests in the heir at law.
Dictionary of Words from the King James Bible. Public Domain. Copy freely.
Material presented was supplied by Brandon Staggs and was derived from the KJV Dictionary found on his website located at av1611.com.
The unabridged 1828 version of this dictionary in the SwordSearcher Bible Software.
Entry for 'Vest'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/kjd/v/vest.html.
