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▪ I. vested, ppl. a.|ˈvɛstɪd|
[f. vest v. + -ed.]
1. a. Clothed, robed, dressed, spec. in ecclesiastical vestments. Also fig.
1671Milton P.R. i. 257 Just Simeon and Prophetic Anna..spake Before the Altar and the vested Priest. 1769Goldsm. Des. Vill. 360 The cooling brook, the grassy vested green. 1841Chalmers in Hanna Mem. (1852) IV. 256 Why do I not go forth as a forgiven and vested creature. 1842Wordsw. Eccles. Sonn. iii. xxvi, The Vested Priest before the Altar stands.
b. Her. (See quot.)
c1828Berry Encycl. Her. I. Gloss., Vested, habited, or clothed, as a cubit arm, &c. vested az. or the like.
2. a. Established, secured, or settled in the hands of, or definitely assigned to, a certain possessor.
1766Blackstone Comm. II. 168 Vested remainders..are where the estate is invariably fixed, to remain to a determinate person, after the particular estate is spent. Ibid. 513 A legacy to one, to be paid when he attains the age of twenty-one years, is a vested legacy. 1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) VI. 185 He held it to be a vested estate in fee in the son. 1832Lewis Use & Ab. Pol. Terms iii. 25 In its legal sense, vested is opposed to contingent. 1845Williams Real Prop. 241 The alienation of an executory interest, before its becoming an actually vested estate. 1868E. Edwards Ralegh I. Introd. p. xlv, After..months of struggle with the vested privileges of record-keepers.
b. esp. with right or interest. Also fig.
(a)a1797J. P. Andrews Man. Constit. 211 (Thornton), Violative of a vested legal right. 1832Austin Jurispr. App. p. xxxiv, Vested rights essentially differ..from rights which are contingent. 1848Mill Pol. Econ. i. ix. §3 (1876) 89 The vested right which Parliament has allowed to be acquired by the existing companies. 1858J. Martineau Stud. Chr. 285 Let its vested right, of paying out the truth, be flung into the free air of history. 1876Digby Real Prop. v. §3. 233 It is not such a right as the law regards as vested, that is, as completely created.
(b)1818Cruise Digest (ed. 2) V. 481 The limitation..gave him an immediate vested interest in the surplus of the estate. 1842Abdy Water Cure (1843) 154 Finding that new truths have not as many vested interests to recommend them as old fallacies. 1859Mill Liberty iv. (1865) 53/1 The doctrine ascribes to all mankind a vested interest in each other's moral, intellectual, and even physical perfection. 1889W. Donisthorpe Individualism iv. 122 Vested interests may perhaps be defined as rights based not upon contract but upon custom.
3. Invested.
1863P. Barry Dockyard Econ. 20 The returns for vested capital and the comfort of the working classes both [being] considered.
▪ II. ˈvested a. Chiefly N. Amer.
[f. vest n. + -ed2.]
Of a suit: three-piece, having a waistcoat.
1976Daily Colonist (Victoria, B.C.) 6 Oct. 5/8 (Advt.), Save a great deal on a Tip Top vested suit. 1982‘W. R. Duncan’ Queen's Messenger viii. 74 Ross..nattily dressed as usual in his vested dark suit. |