About The Word Investiture
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Investiture
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What's The Definition Of Investiture?
[n] the ceremony of installing a new monarch
Synonyms | Synonyms for Investiture: coronation | enthronement | enthronisation | enthronization Related Terms | Find terms related to Investiture: accedence | acceptance | accession | accommodation | accordance | admission | admittance | anchorage | apostolic orders | apparel | appointment | array | attire | award | awarding | baptism | bedizenment | bestowal | bestowment | calling | canonization | clothes | clothing | colonization | communication | concession | conferment | conferral | consecration | contribution | coronation | costume | deliverance | delivery | donation | drapery | dress | dressing | duds | election | endowment | enlistment | enrollment | enthronement | establishment | fashion | fatigues | feathers | fig | fixation | foundation | furnishment | garb | garments | gear | gifting | giving | grant | granting | guise | habiliment | habit | holy orders | immission | impartation | impartment | inaugural | inauguration | induction | initiation | installation | installment | instatement | institution | intromission | investment | liberality | linen | lodgment | major orders | minor orders | mooring | nomination | offer | ordainment | orders | ordination | peopling | placement | plantation | population | presentment | provision | rags | raiment | reading in | robes | settlement | settling | sportswear | style | subscription | supplying | surrender | taking office | threads | togs | toilette | trim | vestment | vesture | vouchsafement | wear | wearing apparel See Also | induction | initiation | installation Investiture In Webster's Dictionary \In*ves"ti*ture\ (?; 135), n. [LL. investitura: cf.
F. investiture.]
1. The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being
invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also,
the right of so investing.
He had refused to yield up to the pope the
investiture of bishops. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
2. (Feudal Law) Livery of seizin.
The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the
ceremony o? corporal investiture, or open delivery
of possession. --Blackstone.
3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment;
clothing; covering.
While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal
weeds. --Trench.
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