Vested
Vested
As in "vested interest; vested ownership" (divest), etc. This is a word that one comes across a lot in dealing with private property issues, but a word that is rarely defined: "I am left, therefore, to wonder whether its proponents deliberately set about to unsettle settled law and divest vested rights, or simply had paid too little attention in school."
The past was once the present, and the future depends on what we do today...
I don't know if this is a rare definition, but it is surely a longstanding one.
Here in the Alpha Agora, one doe not have to wait an overly long period of time to be a vested member.vest (v.)
c.1425, "to put in possession of a person," from M.Fr. vestir, from M.L. vestire "to put into possession, to invest," from L. vestire "to clothe," related to vestis "garment, clothing," from PIE *wes- "to clothe" (see wear). Vested "established, secured, settled" is attested from 1766.
"Time is nature's way of keeping everything from happening all at once. Lately it hasn't been working."
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