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▪ I. inˈvesting, vbl. n.
[f. invest v. + -ing1.]
The action of the verb invest.
1598Florio, Investitura,..an inuesting. 1622Bacon Hen. VII 189 New Commissions, for the Discouerie and inuesting of vnknowne Lands. 1711Light to Blind ii. vii. §76 in 10th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 167 The Prince..did not judge the investing of Lymerick..to hasten the surrender of the town.
▪ II. inˈvesting, ppl. a.
[-ing2.]
That invests. a. Enveloping or surrounding like clothing.
1646Sir T. Browne Pseud. Ep. iii. xiv. 139 Materialls..call'd by the name of Salamanders wooll; which many too literally apprehending, conceive some investing part, or tegument of the Salamander. 1796Kirwan Elem. Min. (ed. 2) II. 188 [Green martial Earth] commonly found investing, or incumbent. 1800Med. Jrnl. IV. 509 The investing membranes of the brain.
b. Milit. Beleaguering.
1828J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner (ed. 2) 44 The arrangement usually made for the reception of the investing corps. 1872Yeats Growth Comm. 269 They were, however, obliged to abandon the siege by Robert Clive, who subsequently defeated the investing army. |