'Vested' definitions:
Definition of 'vested'
(from WordNet)
adjective
Fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right"
Definition of 'Vested'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Definition of 'Vested'
From: GCIDE
- 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]
Synonyms of 'vested'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- 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