Vested is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for VESTED in dictionary:

VERB:
• VEST, to place authority in
NOUN:
• an undergarment worn on the upper part of the body, typically having no sleeves.
• a garment worn on the upper part of the body for a particular purpose
• a waistcoat or sleeveless jacket.
• give (someone) the legal right to power, property, etc.
• (of power, property, etc.) come into the possession of
• dress (someone)
• confer or bestow (power, authority, property, etc.) on someone
• (of a chorister or member of the clergy) put on vestments
• a woman's sleeveless top
ADJECTIVE:
• having an existing right to the immediate or future possession of property
• Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.
• Not in a state of contingency or suspension; fixed; as, vested rights; vested interests.
• fixed and absolute and without contingency
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• to place in the control of

Words related to VESTED

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How to use VESTED in a sentence

• One Supreme Court created, in which was vested the judicial power of the United States.
• In the Lutheran Church, as in the Catholic, the right of excommunication was vested in the clergy alone.
• When that is done we shall be able to decide whether such power is vested in the National Government.
• It is, I think, equally manifest that such a power vested in Congress and wisely executed would have the happiest effect on all the great interests of our Union.
• IMPORTATION OF DOGS The power of making Orders dealing with the importation of dogs is vested in the Board of Agriculture, who have absolute authority in the matter.
• The chancel was filled with a vested choir which, singing and carrying a cross, advanced down the aisle to meet the bridal party.
• There is no authority vested in congress to restrain the States in the interval of twenty years, from doing what they please.
• The execution of such political schemes would certainly clash with many old-fashioned notions and vested rights of the traditional European policy.
• Thus the absolute authority vested in Cheirisophus was terminated there and then, within less than a week of his appointment.
• Brigham Young, being vested with the superintendence of Indian affairs, during his entire term of service as Governor, abused the functions of that office.
• Harnwicke thought not, being of the opinion that the vested interests would never say die until they were quite dead.
• But, with all her respect for the vested interests of Horace, Lady Janet could not blame Julian.
• Another objectionable habit of the tropical ants, viewed practically, is their total disregard of vested interests in the case of house property.
• Should the government of the larger cities be vested solely in a commission of not more than nine men elected by the voters at large? 16.
• The old lady has charge of the large sacred bowl of the community, an office vested only in a woman of undoubted chastity.
• A few families in that island claimed to have the power of witchcraft vested in them from generation to generation.
• A new trade was at this time opened with Persia, through the dominions of the czar, and vested with an exclusive privilege in the Russian company, by an act of parliament.
• Is it possible to doubt what sort of a legislature will be chosen? On one side is a statesman preaching patience, respect for vested rights, strict observance of public faith.
• The power and authority are entirely vested in the great mass, the workers.
• The supreme control of the Order was vested in the Chapter-General, consisting of all the Knights Grand Cross.
• Had it been otherwise, we might have heard of vested rights.
• I have known him for many years, and, I can assure you, he is just and sincere in all his statements, besides being vested with authority to deal with you.
• Every free man, woman and child in each clan had a vested interest therein which was acknowledged and respected.
• This I conceive, Sir, to be true of trusts of power vested in the highest hands, and of such, as seem to hold of no human creature.
• No monopoly of trade, beyond their own limits, is vested in the corporate body of any town or city in the kingdom.
• But they dare not ascribe to human reason that power, which they believe to be exclusively vested in the spirit of God.
• Elizabeth, his daughter, married Henry, Duke of Buccleuch, in whose family the honour of Clitheroe is now vested.
• The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one supreme court, and in such inferior courts as the congress may, from time to time, ordain and establish.

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