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To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.

To divest of a clout. [R.]

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.

To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.

To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

ch anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.

To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] Feltham.

To divest of coat of mail. Spenser.

To strip or deprive of dress; to divest.

To divest of a mask. Shak.

To divest of reality; to make uncertain. [Obs.] Udall.

To divest of a robe; to undress; figuratively, to strip of covering; to divest of that which clothes or decorates; as, autumn disrobes the fields of verdure. Two great peers were disrobed of their glory. Sir H. Wotton.

To put off, as dress; to divest one's self of; hence, figuratively, to put or thrust away; to rid one's self of. And made us doff our easy robes of peace. Shak. At night, or in the rain, He dons a surcoat which he doffs at morn. Emerson.

hich they depend for being what they are (distinguished as real essence); the real being, divested of all logical accidents; that quality which constitutes or marks the true nature of anything; distinctive character; hence, virtue or quality of a thing, separated from its grosser parts. The laws are at present, both in…

The act of depriving or divesting of shoes. [Obs.] Chambers.

The act of depriving or divesting of flesh; excarnification; -- opposed to incarnation.