Vested

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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 WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  vested
       adj : fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right"

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  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