vested Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb provide with power and authority
    invest; vest; enthrone.
    • They vested the council with special rights
  2. verb place (authority, property, or rights) in the control of a person or group of persons
    vest.
    • She vested her vast fortune in her two sons
  3. verb become legally vested
    vest.
    • The property vests in the trustees
  4. verb clothe oneself in ecclesiastical garments
    vest.
  5. verb clothe formally; especially in ecclesiastical robes
    vest; robe.
  6. adjective satellite fixed and absolute and without contingency
    • a vested right

WordNet


Vest"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. "The vested priest." Milton.
  2. (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.

Webster 1913