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Definition of Divested
1. divest [v] - See also: divest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Divested
Literary usage of Divested
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. South Eastern Reporter by West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals, West Publishing Company, South Carolina Supreme Court (1922)
"subsequent, liable to be divested by the happening of a contingency, rather than
to declare it a contingent remainder." Id., g 301; Clanton v. Estes, 77 Ga. ..."
2. Lectures on Jurisprudence, Or, The Philosophy of Positive Law by John Austin (1885)
"LYI divested or withdrawn, through, or in consequence of, a till ' meaning by a
title, such intervening or mediate fact I also said, that wherever a right ..."
3. The Living Age by Making of America Project, Eliakim Littell, Robert S. Littell (1868)
"There yon were wrong, then," said Cutbill, who divested himself of an overcoat,
threw it on the back of a chair, and came forward towards the fire. ..."
4. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1836)
"In what manner can the epidemic be rendered less destructive and completely
divested of its terrors? Being the result of the author's own observations, ..."
5. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann, Edward Aloysius Pace, Condé Bénoist Pallen, Thomas Joseph Shahan, John Joseph Wynne (1913)
"It may happen that the symbol becomes divested of its material meaning and that
the sign is overlooked in beholding only the thing signified. ..."
6. Montgomery's Manual of Federal Procedure, Practice and Forms by Charles Carroll Montgomery (1918)
"Lien of Judgment or Execution not divested by Creation of a New District or
Division, nor by the Division or Transfer of Territory. By § 60, Jud. ..."
7. Biographical Sketches of Loyalists of the American Revolution: With an by Lorenzo Sabine (1864)
"The laws which divested the Loyalists of their estates demand a moment's examination.
Keeping in view that the Whigs were rigid in resisting the pretensions ..."
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