ppl. a. [f. prec.] Clothed or dressed in vesture; wearing vesture. Also transf. Chiefly in predicative use and const. with or in.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccclxxxi. 640. They ar clothed in veluet … and we be vestured with pore clothe. Ibid. (c. 1530), Arth. Lyt. Bryt. (1814), 156. She was vestured wyth a samyte of grene.
a. 1814. Apostate, II. iv., in New Brit. Theatre, III. 319. When I contrast my naked ignorance, With that rich-crown’d, that flowing vestured knowledge.
1882. Nature, XXVI. 61. Cables have … been lifted richly vestured with the spoils of the bottom.
1893. R. H. Charles, Bk. Enoch, 129. They will be vestured with life.
