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investiture|ɪnˈvɛstɪtjʊə(r)|
[ad. med.L. investītūr-a, f. investīre to invest; It. investitura ‘an enstalment, enrobing, endowrie, imploiment, investing’ (Florio, 1598); F. investiture (1564).]
1. The action of clothing or robing; concr., that which clothes or covers. Chiefly fig.
1651Jer. Taylor Serm. for Year i. xviii. 225 By the resurrection of the body, and a new investiture of the soul, with the same upper garment clarified. 1660― Duct. Dubit. ii. ii. rule 6 §16 The bodily shape was the usual investiture of God's messengers in their appearances. 1855Singleton Virgil I. Pref. 5 To dress the sovereign in a linsey-woolsey garb would be seen at once to be a very unsuitable investiture. a1871Alford Gen. & Ex. Eng. Rdrs. Ex. xix. 9 The darkness of clouds is the accustomed investiture of the Divine presence.
2. The action or ceremony of clothing in the insignia of an office; the ceremonial, official, or formal investing of a person with an office or rank; the formal putting (a person) in possession of a fief or benefice. Often, spec., the livery and seizin of the temporalities of a bishopric or other ecclesiastical dignity, the right of which was keenly contested between the papacy and the temporal powers during the Middle Ages.
1387Trevisa Higden (Rolls) V. 289 He ordeyned þat no clerk schulde fonge þe investiture of his benefys [investituram sui beneficii], noþer of his offys, of a lewed man his hond. 1494Fabyan Chron. vi. cliv. 142 He grauntyd vnto hym inuestiture of benefycis spirituall. 1530Tindale Pract. Prelates Wks. (Parker Soc.) II. 294 He had compelled him..to deliver up the investiture or election of bishops unto St. Peter's vicar, which investiture was of old time the king's duty. 1642Fuller Holy & Prof. St. iv. xx. 343 We find him to be the first Prince of Wales, whose charter at this day is extant, with the particular rites of investiture, which were the Crownet, and ring of gold, with a Rod of Silver. 1757Burke Abridgem. Eng. Hist. iii. iv, The king..gave the bishop the investiture, or livery and seizin of his temporalities, by the delivery of a ring and staff. 1845J. Saunders Cabinet Pict. Eng. Life, Chaucer 66 Investiture was the formal giving into the tenant's hands the lands granted, and which was done, as far as possible, literally by the lord or his deputy, or symbolically by the delivery..of a turf, a stone, or some other of the ninety-eight prevalent modes enumerated by Du Cange. 1852C. M. Yonge Cameos I. xii. 76 The tokens of investiture were the pastoral staff, fashioned like a shepherd's crook, and the ring by which the Bishop was wedded to his See.
3. Clothing in or enduement with attributes or qualities; establishment in any state of privilege or honour.
1626Bp. Andrewes Serm. (1856) I. 62 Our freeing from under the Lawe, our investiture into our new adopted state. a1631Donne in Select. (1840) 241 The appropriation and investiture of an actual and applying faith. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Barrenness Imag. Faculty, One incapable of investiture with any grandeur. a1899J. Caird Fund. Ideas Chr. II. xix. 246 His investiture with external power and glory.
4. The hostile investment of a place; = investment 4. Now rare.
1649Evelyn Let. to Sir R. Browne, Supposing that Paris is now free of the investiture. 1898Daily News 4 Nov. 5/4 A commander..consents to break the line of investiture only when a favourable chance offers.
†5. = investment 5. Obs.
1757Herald (1758) I. v. 66 Augmented by so facile an investiture of savings. Ibid. II. xvi. 11 Investitures of money. 1805W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. III. 308 The investiture of additional capitals in the purchase of corn. 1832Chalmers Pol. Econ. 315 Capital would find a fresh field for its investiture. 1845N. Brit. Rev. III. 333 It tells us of the impossibility, at present, to get a profitable investiture for a poor man's savings. |