revestry, n.
(rɪˈvɛstrɪ)
Forms: 5–6 revestre, 5 rewystre, 6 reuestre; 5 reuestery; 6–7 reu-, revestrie (6 -rye); 5–7 reu-, 5– revestry.
[ad. OF. revestiaire (see prec.), after vestry: see also revester n. and revesture.]
1. The vestry of a church († or temple).
In common use during the 15–17th centuries.
| 1412 Catterick Ch. Contract (Raine, 1834) 9 And the forsaide Richarde sall putte out tusses for the makyng of a Reuestery. 1484 Churchw. Acc. Wigtoft, Linc. (Nichols, 1797) 79 In makyng of the crosse tristles and settyng on a grete almery in the revestry. 1527 in Fiddes Wolsey (1726) II. 103 Oon man is not able both to attende and kepe the revestry and do all things in the churche. 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 1185/1 One of the southdores of S. Dionise church.., with the dore of the reuestrie of the same church, were both striken through and broken. 1621 Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 12 The Priest and ædituus..led the man along thorow Courts, Porches, Iles, Chancels, &c. into their inmost Reuestries. 1683 Cave Ecclesiastici Introd. p. xiv, The Commissioners enter'd every where into the Temples, and threw open the Doors of their most secret Revestries. |
| 1844 Paley Ch. Restorers 106, I wish you could see the exquisite decorated revestry at Willingham near Cambridge. 1880 Sat. Rev. No. 1292. 135 The revestry, which had been walled up.., when again opened, disclosed the copes, albs, chasubles, and other garments of the priests. |
| attrib. 1539 Lett. Suppress. Monast. (Camden) 276 Item, the lytle cundyt standyng at the revestrye dore, sold to George Stonyng. |
| transf. 1513 Douglas æneis vi. i. 154 To the, also, within our realmis, sal be Mony secret closet and revestre. a 1641 Bp. R. Montagu Acts & Mon. (1642) 7 It is laid up with God in ἀποκρύϕοις, in the Revestries of eternity. |
† 2. A vestry meeting. In
quot. attrib. Obs.| 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies, Questman 79 Some orders..which he purposeth the next revestrie day to present to the rest of his worshipfull brethren. |
Hence
† reˈvestry v., to lay up.
Obs. rare—1.
| 1624 Bp. R. Montagu Gagg 312 The Arke was revestried in the most holy place. |