DEVESTv.t.
[L., a vest, a garment. Generally written divest.]
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.
DEVESTv.i.
In law, to be lost or alienated, as a title or an estate.
[This word is generally written divest, except in the latter and legal sense.]