From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Divest \Di*vest"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Divested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Divesting}.] [LL. divestire (di- = dis- + L. vestire to dress), equiv. to L. devestire. It is the same word as devest, but the latter is rarely used except as a technical term in law. See {Devest}, {Vest}.]
1. To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to {invest}.
2. Fig.: To strip; to deprive; to dispossess; as, to divest one of his rights or privileges; to divest one's self of prejudices, passions, etc.
Wretches divested of every moral feeling. --Goldsmith.
The tendency of the language to divest itself of its gutturals. --Earle.
3. (Law) See {Devest}. --Mozley & W.
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
22 Moby Thesaurus words for "divested": bared, bereaved, bereaved of, bereft, cut off, denudated, denuded, deprived of, exposed, lacking, laid bare, minus, out of, parted from, robbed of, shorn of, showing, stripped, stripped of, uncovered, unveiled, wanting
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