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English Dictionary: vested by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
vested
adj
  1. fixed and absolute and without contingency; "a vested right"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vest \Vest\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Vested}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Vesting}.] [Cf. L. vestire, vestitum, OF. vestir, F.
      v[88]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.
  
                     Came vested all in white, pure as her mind.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     With ether vested, and a purple sky.   --Dryden.
  
      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.
  
                     Had I been vested with the monarch's power. --Prior.
  
      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.
  
                     Empire and dominion was [were] vested in him.
                                                                              --Locke.
  
      4. To invest; to put; as, to vest money in goods, land, or
            houses. [R.]
  
      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.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Vested \Vest"ed\, a.
      1. Clothed; robed; wearing vestments. [bd]The vested
            priest.[b8] --Milton.
  
      2. (Law) Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed;
            as, vested rights; vested interests.
  
      {Vested legacy} (Law), a legacy the right to which commences
            in pr[91]senti, 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.
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