[f. VEST v. + -ING1.]
1. The action or fact of investing, confirming or establishing, esp. by legal process.
1596. Bacon, Max. Com. Law, ix. (1630), 42. But that holdeth place onely upon the first vesting of the vse.
1611. Cotgr., Vesture,… a vesting, inuesting, or putting into possession of.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., 798. This Christian Resurrection of Life, is the Vesting and Setling of the Souls of Good men, in their … Immortal Bodies.
1729. Jacob, Law Dict., s.v. Remainder, The Vesting of the Estate in the Crown, during the Life of the Father.
1826. G. Bell, Comm. Laws Scot. (ed. 5), II. 609. Of some Points in the Vesting of Estates in Trust, Judicial or Voluntary.
1827. Jarman, Powell’s Devises, II. 217. The Court held … that the adverbs of time, when, &c. do not make any thing necessary to precede the settling (i.e. the vesting) of the remainder.
1880. Muirhead, Ulpian, xxiv. § 23. It is requisite that, when the time of vesting arrives, the legatee shall be no longer in the heir’s potestas.
attrib. 1700. Luttrell, Brief Rel. (1857), IV. 631. Yesterday the lords … went thro most part of the land tax and Irish forfeiture bill; postponed the first clause, called the vesting clause.
2. The action or process of putting on, or investing with, vestments. Also attrib.
1648. W. L., Newes fr. Turkie, 9. To hinder his Lordships Vesting.
c. 1660. Jer. Taylor, Serm., Wks. 1831, IV. 144. That observation of St. Jerome made concerning the vesting of the priests in the Levitical ministrations.
1879. Simmons, Lay-Folks Mass-bk., 164. The subsequent directions prove that this vesting was not at the altar.
1905. Times, 27 Sept., 4/2. Liturgical vestments are worn in the Lutheran Churches, and the vesting prayers used in the Church of Rome prove that their symbolism is regarded as ethical and not dogmatic.
