DIVEST

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
v.

To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest.

2.
v.

Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc. Wretches divested of every moral feeling. Goldsmith. The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. Earle.

3.
v.

See Devest. Mozley & W.

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