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vested 音标拼音: [v'ɛstəd] [v'ɛstɪd] a. 穿衣服的,既得的,既定的 穿衣服的,既得的,既定的 vested adj 1: fixed and absolute and without contingency; " a vested right" 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. [ 1913 Webster] Came vested all in white, pure as her mind. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] With ether vested, and a purple sky. -- Dryden. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Had I been vested with the monarch' s power. -- Prior. [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster] Empire and dominion was [ were] vested in him. -- Locke. [ 1913 Webster] 4. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or houses. [ R.] [ 1913 Webster] 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. [ 1913 Webster]
Vested \ Vest" ed\, a. 1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. " The vested priest." -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. ( Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests. [ 1913 Webster] { 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. [ 1913 Webster] 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
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