v. [UN-2 4.]
1. trans. To divest, strip.
1609. Bible (Douay), Lev. vi. 11. He … shal be unvested of his former vestments.
1610. Guillim, Heraldry, III. vii. 106. This being mortified and vnuested of the verdour which sometimes it had.
2. refl. and absol. To divest (oneself) of ecclesiastical vestments.
1740. Challoner, Gard. Soul (1801), 87. The priest returns … to the sacristy and unvests himself.
a. 1771. in E. H. Burton, Life Challoner (1909), I. ix. 140. The Bishop having unvested, remained kneeling.
1853. Dale, trans. Baldeschi’s Ceremonial, 15. They assist the sacred Ministers to unvest.
