单词 | supervest |
释义 | supervestv. Now rare. transitive. To cover with a garment. Chiefly figurative. Only in past participle. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > cover [verb (transitive)] > as with garment clothea1382 overclothea1425 garmenta1547 invest1548 palliate1548 overclad1591 vestite1598 clad1601 supervest1610 garb1648 1610 W. Cowper Defiance to Death 188 It might please the Lord, that keeping still the body, he might bee superuested, or clothed vpon with his other most excellent house, which is from heauen. 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility iv. 49 Stones that abide long in the bladder, are supervested with divers crusts. 1697 J. Sergeant Solid Philos. 285 Supervested with an Artificial Dress, thrown over them by our Reflexion. 1830 T. Robson Brit. Herald I. 179/2 A figure representing Minerva, habited in a robe flowing to the feet, ar. supervested with a tunic. 1902 A. Chambers Our Life after Death (rev. ed.) 30 One day, in the stead of the physical body laid aside forever at death, they [sc. the departed] will be super-vested [1899 re-vested] with a new body, spiritual in its constitution. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2012; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < v.1610 |
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