investituren.

Brit.

/ɪnˈvɛstᵻtʃə/,

/ɪnˈvɛstᵻtjʊə/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈvɛstəˌtʃʊ(ə)r/,

/ᵻnˈvɛstətʃər/

Forms: Middle English–1600s inuestiture, Middle English– investiture.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin investitura.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin investitura formal installation, (also) action of formally granting tenure of a property (9th cent.; from 10th cent. (frequently from 12th cent.) in British sources), possession (10th cent.), (in legal context) being caught in the act of committing a crime (12th cent. in a British source) < investīt- , past participial stem of investīre invest v. + -ūra -ure suffix¹. Compare vestiture n.Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French investiture formal installation (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman, late 15th cent. in continental French), Spanish investidura (early 14th cent.), Italian investitura (end of the 13th cent.), and also German Investitur (15th cent.). In investiture contest, investiture controversy at Compounds after German Investiturstreit (late 18th cent.).

a. The action or an act of making a person, or the fact of being made, a bishop or other prelate; the action or fact of granting the spiritual and temporal benefices of a bishopric or other ecclesiastical dignity. Also: the action of ceremonially dressing and equipping a bishop or other prelate with the bishop's vestments, ring, crozier, etc., as part of the bishop's enthronement.

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 289 He [sc. Pope Simplicius] ordeyned þat no clerk schulde fonge þe investiture of his benefys [L. investituram sui beneficii] noþer of his offys of a lewed man his hond.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 115 Other bischoppes succedenge receyvede consecracion of the bischop of Canterbery... In the inuestiture [L. investiturae] of whom..Bonefacius..songe masse.

1584 R. Cosin Answer to Two Fyrst & Principall Treat. 93 All Archbishops and Bishops in all prouinces should take their inuestiture of Charles the great then emperour.

1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. i. 11 The Investitures of Bishops and Abbots..had been originally given by the delivery of the Pastoral Ring and Staffe, by the Kings of England.

1722 I. Kimber et al. Hist. Eng. I. 160 The King..sends an Ambassage to Pope Paschal to represent his Right to the Investiture of Bishops.

a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 636 The king..gave the bishop the investiture, or livery and seisin of his temporalities, by the delivery of a ring and staff.

1852 C. M. Yonge Cameos xvi, in Monthly Packet July 9 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.

1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. i. 271 The clergy of Saxony resolved to expel all the intruding and Simonian bishops (those who had received investiture from the Emperor).

1905 Eccl. Rev. Dec. 585 What are the prescribed ceremonies of investiture of Domestic Prelates, and where in the Pontifical or Ritual may these ceremonies be found?

1984 Jrnl. Amer. Musicol. Soc. 37 327 It was Rovetta rather than Monteverdi who conducted the music..for the investiture of Cardinal Federico Cornaro as patriarch of Venice.

2010 M. McLaughlin Sex, Gender, & Episcopal Authority ii. 81 Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury refused to accept investiture from the new king.

b. Medieval History. The right or power to grant the spiritual and temporal benefices of a bishopric or other ecclesiastical dignity.During the Middle Ages, the right of investiture was keenly contested between the papacy and secular rulers. The investiture of temporal benefices amounted to the granting of feudal property; cf. sense 3b.

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a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 383 (MED) Þe kyng chalangede þe investiture [?a1475 anon. tr. investitures; L. investituram] of prelates.

?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 407 (MED) Paschalis..myȝhte not be delyverede untille that he hade promisede fidelite to themperour, suffrenge hym to have the investitures of prelates with a rynge and a staffe.

a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clivii. f. lxxxiii^v He [sc. the Pope] grauntyd vnto hym Inuestiture of benefycis spirituall.

1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fiij He had compelled him..to delyuer upp the inuestiture or eleccion of bysshoppes unto seynt Peters vicare which inuestiture was of old tyme the kynges duetye.

1850 W. Turner tr. F. R. Hasse Life of Anselm x. 138 The King..was unwilling to give up the Investiture and the oath of Allegiance, because he considered that with them he surrendered the half of his kingdom.

2006 C. Lindberg Brief Hist. Christianity v. 68 The king renounced investiture with ring and staff, but retained investiture with the scepter before the vows.

a. The action or an act of ceremonially dressing someone in or presenting someone with official robes, attire, or insignia, esp. as part of a formal installation or induction. Also: the fact of being dressed in or presented with official robes, attire, or insignia.

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1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxviii^v Whiche duke very reuerently receaued it [sc. the whole habite of the order of the garter], and with more reuerence reuested him selfe with the same in a solempne presence, thinkyng that by this apparell and inuestiture, he was made a frende and compaygnion in ordre with y^e king of England.

a1623 W. Pemble Short Expos. Zachary (1629) vi. 82 Upon Ioshua's investiture with the Priestly garments.

1642 T. Fuller Holy State 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, worthily bestowed upon him.

1799 S. S. Sacred Exhib. Worthington Hall ii. 86 The ceremony of consecration, is not merely the investiture with the outward garments of the priesthood.

1854 Athenæum 1 Apr. 412/3 Catherine's..investiture with the ermined mantle and gorgeous crown of the Empress.

1855 R. C. Singleton in tr. Virgil Wks. I. Pref. p. v To dress the sovereign in a linsey-woolsey garb would be seen at once to be a very unsuitable investiture.

1935 L. S. S. O'Malley Pop. Hinduism iv. 112 The upanayan or investiture with the sacred thread..marks a boy's assumption of religious responsibilities.

1976 Ethnology 15 154 Investiture with the noble emblems gives clan members their full status as nobles.

2004 J. H. Kim Significance of Clothing Imagery in Pauline Corpus ii. 52 The priest's..investiture with the coloured robe signifies that he is united with the universe.

†b. More generally: the action or an act of clothing someone or something in a particular garment or set of clothes, or (figurative) in something likened to clothing. Also: the fact of being so clothed. Obsolete.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun]

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > as with a garment

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1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xviii. 225 By the resurrection of the body, and a new investiture of the soul, with the same upper garment clarified.

1738 J. Miller Art & Nature i. 7 I have receiv'd nothing..for Wages..but the Investiture of this poor thread-bare Garment.

1772 W. Jones Disquis. conc. Metaphorical Usage & Applic. Sleep in Script. 2 The transformation of the several species of Caterpillars, through their intermediate state of Sleep to that of their splendid investiture in the spring.

c. concrete. That which clothes someone; a garment, a set of clothes; (figurative) something likened to clothing. Also: that which covers something; a covering.

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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun]

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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > like a garment

weedOE

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1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 334 The bodily shape..was nothing but a body of light;..which indeed was the usual investiture of God's messengers in their appearances.

1837 J. Holland Tour of Don I. lii. 481 The more compact and constantly increased investiture of bog moss.

a1871 H. Alford in Bk. Gen. & Part Bk. Exod. (1872) (Exod. xix. 9) 308/1 (note) The darkness of clouds is the accustomed investiture of the Divine presence.

1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 60/2 Cells..continued into the leaves as an investiture of the vascular bundle.

1950 Jrnl. Hist. Med. & Allied Sci. 5 93 She arrayed herself in a spotlessly white gown... She then fashioned a headdress from a square of muslin and completed the investiture with a home-made surgical mask.

2011 Bryologist 114 48/1 The leaves of Calypogeia..have a fine investiture of wax.

a. The action of investing someone, or the fact of being invested, with an office, rank, honour, etc.; a formal or ceremonial installation or induction, esp. one in which the person being installed is dressed in or presented with official robes, attire, or insignia. Also attributive.

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society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > formal or ceremonial appointment

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society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > [noun] > investing with a rank or title

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cincture of sword1587

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1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 133 Eugenio..inuested his [sc. Alfonse's] bastarde sonne Ferdinando successour to the crowne. For whiche inuestiture, kynge Alfonse vpon couenaunte inuaded the countrey De La Marca.

1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. iv. f. 105/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The noble order of the Toyson Dor or Golden fleese, with the ceremonies apperteyning vnto the creation and inuestiture of the sixe and thirtie knightes thereof.

1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter x. 302 This Investiture of the Lord Scroop, was the last action in this kind, which Sir Gilbert Dethick performed.

1682 P. Walsh Prospect State Ireland vi. 421 The Prince of Tirconel, namely O Donel,..Keting shews that the place both of his Election or Inauguration or Investiture was Cill-mhic-Creunain.

1714 T. Dawson Mem. St. George 209 Two or more Elect-Knights receive the Honour of this Investiture at one Time.

1853 Manch. Guardian 1 June 4/5 After his..investiture with the honorary degree of D.C.L. he occasionally signed his name in the visitors' book of a public institution as Dr. Wesley.

1965 Festival Malaysia 1965: Calendar of Events 6/1 The Investiture Ceremony held in the afternoon at the Istana in Sri-Menanti is followed by a Garden Party in the evening.

1998 V. Powell Departure Platform vii. 75 The investiture, when Anthony received his CBE, took place on 27 November 1956.

2004 M. Oke Times of our Lives 306 The investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales is conducted at Caernarfon Castle.

b. The action of granting someone, or the fact of being granted, a domain, right, authority, etc. Also Law: the action or ceremony of formally granting tenure of a property or fief; (also) the tenure itself. Now historical.Investiture was typically carried out either in person or by the delivery of tokens of possession; see note at livery of seisin at livery n. Phrases 1.

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society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun]

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1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 130 Lewys of Angio..obteigned of Alexander the inuestiture of the realme of Naples.

1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne sig. L.iv^v The Lorde doth geue unto his vassail a rynge, for a token of the inuestiture of possession or lyuerye of his fee or gyfte.

1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice iv. 538 He receiued the Dutchie as belonging vnto him by the inuestiture of the king of Romans.

1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. v. 150 By the written feudal law, the investiture behoved to be renewed upon every change, either of the superiour or vassal.

1845 J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures of 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.

1908 J. Craigie & J. Bartholomew Elem. Conveyancing i. iv. 75 Relief..is now [i.e. after 1874] the sum payable by the heir of investiture on the death of the last vassal.

1997 J. A. Green Aristocracy Norman Eng. vii. 195 The relationship between lords and their vassals was established by an act of homage or submission.., followed by solemn investiture with an estate or fief.

4. The action of investing a person, or the fact of being invested, with an attribute, quality, or power; the investing of an attribute, quality, or power in or on a person.In earliest use with allusion to sense 2b.

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the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > endowing with something

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1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. iv. 140 A double state of saintes, which S. Paul resembleth to a garment, in this world.., the vesture of this flesh in the other.., their inuestiture with immortalitie.

a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 237 The appropriation and investiture of an actual and applying faith.

a1680 T. Goodwin Of Constit. Govt. Churches of Christ (1696) i. iv. 17 Power Spiritual is an impress of, or an investiture with the Authority of Christ.

1713 S. Parker tr. St. Athanasius Four Orations against Arians II. 89 He that was in full Possession of Absolute and Infinite Perfection and Happiness, receiv'd in his Manhood an Ample Investiture of Grace and Glory.

1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. 99 So dangerous is it to tempt trustees with the investiture of power.

1833 C. Lamb Barrenness Imaginative Faculty in Last Ess. Elia 181 One incapable of investiture with any grandeur.

a1898 J. Caird Fund. Ideas Christianity (1899) II. xix. 246 His investiture with external power and glory.

1938 Austral. Q. Dec. 66 There are many who advocate the immediate investiture of the League [of Nations] with adequate power to coerce the member nations.

1965 R. G. Stern Stitch vi. 55 To be included on Christmas Day in a Stitch family affair was an investiture of cultural nobility.

2010 R. L. Millet in By what Authority? p. ix His representatives were given..a divine investiture of authority.

5. Military. The action or fact of a hostile force surrounding and blockading a town, stronghold, etc.; = investment n. 5. Now historical.

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society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun]

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1649 J. Evelyn Let. 29 Mar. in Diary & Corr. (1852) (modernized text) III. 41 Supposing that Paris is now free of the investiture.

1747 J. Muller Attack & Def. Fortify'd Places i. 118 It held out but 12 Days from the Day of Investiture to the End of the Siege.

1789 D. Ramsay Hist. Amer. Rev. II. xix. 154 The British speedily completed the investiture of the town, both by land and water.

1849 Independent 29 Mar. 66/8 Town and Citadel, have fallen after an investiture of four months.

1898 Daily News 4 Nov. 5/4 A commander..consents to break the line of investiture only when a favourable chance offers.

1911 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 26 2 He had a thrilling experience in escaping from the metropolis on the day before its investiture by the German army.

1959 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 18 267 The author tells of the subsequent investiture of the city, the arrival of Haller's army and the ultimate Polish victory.

2010 C. J. Rogers Oxf. Encycl. Medieval Warfare & Mil. Technol. I. 266/1 Relief forces marched to the stronghold to break the investiture.

6. The action of investing money or capital (= investment n. 8a). Also: an instance of this (= investment n. 8b).

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society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment

improvement1549

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sinking1890

1757 Herald 15 Oct. 26 How fast great possessions are to be augmented by so facile an investiture of savings.

1757 Herald 29 Dec. 95 Investitures of money in such property.

1805 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1804 3 308/1 The investiture of additional capitals in the purchase of corn.

1845 N. Brit. Rev. 3 333 It tells us of the impossibility, at present, to get a profitable investiture for a poor man's savings.

1884 L. G. Tyler Lett. & Times Tylers I. xiv. 432 An increase of duties would tempt new investitures of capital.

1953 Manch. Guardian 27 Apr. 6/6 Apart from substantial capital investiture, this would require sufficient supervisory staff.

2010 Mass Transit June 12/1 The investiture of $8 billion in federal stimulus funding for high-speed rail.

Compounds

attributive. Medieval History. Designating the contest between secular rulers and the papacy in the Middle Ages over the right to grant the benefices of a bishopric or other ecclesiastical dignity, as investiture contest, investiture controversy, etc.

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1850 W. Turner tr. F. R. Hasse Life of Anselm x. 135 (heading) Anselm's return. The investiture-controversy [Ger. Investiturstreit].

1851 E. S. Ffoulkes Man. Eccl. Hist. 339 Philip of France was excommunicated as much for his conduct in the investiture contest as for his incestuous union.

1931 Catholic Hist. Rev. 17 266 The papal policy in the so-called Investiture controversy was not new in the history of the Church.

2006 C. Lindberg Brief Hist. Christianity v. 68 The investiture struggle ended with a compromise between king Henry V and pope Callistus II.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	investiture
释义	investituren. Brit. /ɪnˈvɛstᵻtʃə/, /ɪnˈvɛstᵻtjʊə/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvɛstəˌtʃʊ(ə)r/, /ᵻnˈvɛstətʃər/ Forms: Middle English–1600s inuestiture, Middle English– investiture. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin investitura. Etymology: < post-classical Latin investitura formal installation, (also) action of formally granting tenure of a property (9th cent.; from 10th cent. (frequently from 12th cent.) in British sources), possession (10th cent.), (in legal context) being caught in the act of committing a crime (12th cent. in a British source) < investīt- , past participial stem of investīre invest v. + -ūra -ure suffix¹. Compare vestiture n.Compare Anglo-Norman and Middle French, French investiture formal installation (beginning of the 14th cent. or earlier in Anglo-Norman, late 15th cent. in continental French), Spanish investidura (early 14th cent.), Italian investitura (end of the 13th cent.), and also German Investitur (15th cent.). In investiture contest, investiture controversy at Compounds after German Investiturstreit (late 18th cent.). 1. a. The action or an act of making a person, or the fact of being made, a bishop or other prelate; the action or fact of granting the spiritual and temporal benefices of a bishopric or other ecclesiastical dignity. Also: the action of ceremonially dressing and equipping a bishop or other prelate with the bishop's vestments, ring, crozier, etc., as part of the bishop's enthronement. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1874) V. 289 He [sc. Pope Simplicius] ordeyned þat no clerk schulde fonge þe investiture of his benefys [L. investituram sui beneficii] noþer of his offys of a lewed man his hond. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1869) II. 115 Other bischoppes succedenge receyvede consecracion of the bischop of Canterbery... In the inuestiture [L. investiturae] of whom..Bonefacius..songe masse. 1584 R. Cosin Answer to Two Fyrst & Principall Treat. 93 All Archbishops and Bishops in all prouinces should take their inuestiture of Charles the great then emperour. 1679 Bp. G. Burnet Hist. Reformation: 1st Pt. i. 11 The Investitures of Bishops and Abbots..had been originally given by the delivery of the Pastoral Ring and Staffe, by the Kings of England. 1722 I. Kimber et al. Hist. Eng. I. 160 The King..sends an Ambassage to Pope Paschal to represent his Right to the Investiture of Bishops. a1797 E. Burke Ess. Abridgm. Eng. Hist. (rev. ed.) in Wks. (1812) V. 636 The king..gave the bishop the investiture, or livery and seisin of his temporalities, by the delivery of a ring and staff. 1852 C. M. Yonge Cameos xvi, in Monthly Packet July 9 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. 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. i. 271 The clergy of Saxony resolved to expel all the intruding and Simonian bishops (those who had received investiture from the Emperor). 1905 Eccl. Rev. Dec. 585 What are the prescribed ceremonies of investiture of Domestic Prelates, and where in the Pontifical or Ritual may these ceremonies be found? 1984 Jrnl. Amer. Musicol. Soc. 37 327 It was Rovetta rather than Monteverdi who conducted the music..for the investiture of Cardinal Federico Cornaro as patriarch of Venice. 2010 M. McLaughlin Sex, Gender, & Episcopal Authority ii. 81 Archbishop Anselm of Canterbury refused to accept investiture from the new king. b. Medieval History. The right or power to grant the spiritual and temporal benefices of a bishopric or other ecclesiastical dignity.During the Middle Ages, the right of investiture was keenly contested between the papacy and secular rulers. The investiture of temporal benefices amounted to the granting of feudal property; cf. sense 3b. ΚΠ a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1879) VII. 383 (MED) Þe kyng chalangede þe investiture [?a1475 anon. tr. investitures; L. investituram] of prelates. ?a1475 (?a1425) tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Harl. 2261) (1879) VII. 407 (MED) Paschalis..myȝhte not be delyverede untille that he hade promisede fidelite to themperour, suffrenge hym to have the investitures of prelates with a rynge and a staffe. a1513 R. Fabyan New Cronycles Eng. & Fraunce (1516) I. clivii. f. lxxxiii^v He [sc. the Pope] grauntyd vnto hym Inuestiture of benefycis spirituall. 1530 W. Tyndale Pract. Prelates sig. Fiij He had compelled him..to delyuer upp the inuestiture or eleccion of bysshoppes unto seynt Peters vicare which inuestiture was of old tyme the kynges duetye. 1850 W. Turner tr. F. R. Hasse Life of Anselm x. 138 The King..was unwilling to give up the Investiture and the oath of Allegiance, because he considered that with them he surrendered the half of his kingdom. 2006 C. Lindberg Brief Hist. Christianity v. 68 The king renounced investiture with ring and staff, but retained investiture with the scepter before the vows. 2. a. The action or an act of ceremonially dressing someone in or presenting someone with official robes, attire, or insignia, esp. as part of a formal installation or induction. Also: the fact of being dressed in or presented with official robes, attire, or insignia. ΚΠ 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VII f. xxviii^v Whiche duke very reuerently receaued it [sc. the whole habite of the order of the garter], and with more reuerence reuested him selfe with the same in a solempne presence, thinkyng that by this apparell and inuestiture, he was made a frende and compaygnion in ordre with y^e king of England. a1623 W. Pemble Short Expos. Zachary (1629) vi. 82 Upon Ioshua's investiture with the Priestly garments. 1642 T. Fuller Holy State 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, worthily bestowed upon him. 1799 S. S. Sacred Exhib. Worthington Hall ii. 86 The ceremony of consecration, is not merely the investiture with the outward garments of the priesthood. 1854 Athenæum 1 Apr. 412/3 Catherine's..investiture with the ermined mantle and gorgeous crown of the Empress. 1855 R. C. Singleton in tr. Virgil Wks. I. Pref. p. v To dress the sovereign in a linsey-woolsey garb would be seen at once to be a very unsuitable investiture. 1935 L. S. S. O'Malley Pop. Hinduism iv. 112 The upanayan or investiture with the sacred thread..marks a boy's assumption of religious responsibilities. 1976 Ethnology 15 154 Investiture with the noble emblems gives clan members their full status as nobles. 2004 J. H. Kim Significance of Clothing Imagery in Pauline Corpus ii. 52 The priest's..investiture with the coloured robe signifies that he is united with the universe. †b. More generally: the action or an act of clothing someone or something in a particular garment or set of clothes, or (figurative) in something likened to clothing. Also: the fact of being so clothed. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > providing with clothing > [noun] clothingc1175 buskingc1330 shriding1340 dressingc1350 attiringa1375 enparelling1496 apparelling?1544 reparelling1579 induition1584 accoutrementa1616 suitinga1637 investiture1651 dress1680 investment1798 garbing1862 kitting1919 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > as with a garment investiture1651 1651 Bp. J. Taylor XXVIII Serm. xviii. 225 By the resurrection of the body, and a new investiture of the soul, with the same upper garment clarified. 1738 J. Miller Art & Nature i. 7 I have receiv'd nothing..for Wages..but the Investiture of this poor thread-bare Garment. 1772 W. Jones Disquis. conc. Metaphorical Usage & Applic. Sleep in Script. 2 The transformation of the several species of Caterpillars, through their intermediate state of Sleep to that of their splendid investiture in the spring. c. concrete. That which clothes someone; a garment, a set of clothes; (figurative) something likened to clothing. Also: that which covers something; a covering. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > [noun] clothesc888 hattersOE shroudc1000 weedOE shrouda1122 clothc1175 hatteringa1200 atourc1220 back-clout?c1225 habit?c1225 clothingc1275 cleadinga1300 dubbinga1300 shroudinga1300 attirec1300 coverturec1300 suitc1325 apparel1330 buskingc1330 farec1330 harness1340 tire1340 backs1341 geara1350 apparelmentc1374 attiringa1375 vesturec1385 heelinga1387 vestmentc1386 arraya1400 graitha1400 livery1399 tirementa1400 warnementa1400 arrayment1400 parelc1400 werlec1400 raiment?a1425 robinga1450 rayc1450 implements1454 willokc1460 habiliment1470 emparelc1475 atourement1481 indumenta1513 reparel1521 wearing gear1542 revesture1548 claesc1550 case1559 attirement1566 furniture1566 investuring1566 apparelling1567 dud1567 hilback1573 wear1576 dress1586 enfolding1586 caparison1589 plight1590 address1592 ward-ware1598 garnish1600 investments1600 ditement1603 dressing1603 waith1603 thing1605 vestry1606 garb1608 outwall1608 accoutrementa1610 wearing apparel1617 coutrement1621 vestament1632 vestiment1637 equipage1645 cask1646 aguise1647 back-timbera1656 investiture1660 rigging1664 drapery1686 vest1694 plumage1707 bussingc1712 hull1718 paraphernalia1736 togs1779 body clothing1802 slough1808 toggery1812 traps1813 garniture1827 body-clothes1828 garmenture1832 costume1838 fig1839 outfit1840 vestiture1841 outer womana1845 outward man1846 vestiary1846 rag1855 drag1870 clo'1874 parapherna1876 clobber1879 threads1926 mocker1939 schmatte1959 vine1959 kit1989 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > [noun] > a covering > like a garment weedOE robec1225 kirtle1398 vestment1483 vesture1526 apron1535 gabardine1542 garment1585 tire1594 dress1608 garb1613 cowl1658 investiture1660 dressing1835 pinafore1845 cloak1876 1660 Bp. J. Taylor Ductor Dubitantium I. ii. ii. 334 The bodily shape..was nothing but a body of light;..which indeed was the usual investiture of God's messengers in their appearances. 1837 J. Holland Tour of Don I. lii. 481 The more compact and constantly increased investiture of bog moss. a1871 H. Alford in Bk. Gen. & Part Bk. Exod. (1872) (Exod. xix. 9) 308/1 (note) The darkness of clouds is the accustomed investiture of the Divine presence. 1900 B. D. Jackson Gloss. Bot. Terms 60/2 Cells..continued into the leaves as an investiture of the vascular bundle. 1950 Jrnl. Hist. Med. & Allied Sci. 5 93 She arrayed herself in a spotlessly white gown... She then fashioned a headdress from a square of muslin and completed the investiture with a home-made surgical mask. 2011 Bryologist 114 48/1 The leaves of Calypogeia..have a fine investiture of wax. 3. a. The action of investing someone, or the fact of being invested, with an office, rank, honour, etc.; a formal or ceremonial installation or induction, esp. one in which the person being installed is dressed in or presented with official robes, attire, or insignia. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > formal or ceremonial appointment stalling1387 vestiture1387 stallation1447 inductiona1464 investurea1513 investiture1549 investing1551 inauguration1569 instalment1589 investion1590 installation1606 vesture1607 installing1610 investment1612 investry1642 investation1657 society > society and the community > social class > nobility > rank > raising to noble rank > [noun] > investing with a rank or title creation1425 investiture1549 cincture of sword1587 investure1825 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 133 Eugenio..inuested his [sc. Alfonse's] bastarde sonne Ferdinando successour to the crowne. For whiche inuestiture, kynge Alfonse vpon couenaunte inuaded the countrey De La Marca. 1577 W. Harrison Hist. Descr. Islande Brit. iii. iv. f. 105/1, in R. Holinshed Chron. I The noble order of the Toyson Dor or Golden fleese, with the ceremonies apperteyning vnto the creation and inuestiture of the sixe and thirtie knightes thereof. 1672 E. Ashmole Inst. Order of Garter x. 302 This Investiture of the Lord Scroop, was the last action in this kind, which Sir Gilbert Dethick performed. 1682 P. Walsh Prospect State Ireland vi. 421 The Prince of Tirconel, namely O Donel,..Keting shews that the place both of his Election or Inauguration or Investiture was Cill-mhic-Creunain. 1714 T. Dawson Mem. St. George 209 Two or more Elect-Knights receive the Honour of this Investiture at one Time. 1853 Manch. Guardian 1 June 4/5 After his..investiture with the honorary degree of D.C.L. he occasionally signed his name in the visitors' book of a public institution as Dr. Wesley. 1965 Festival Malaysia 1965: Calendar of Events 6/1 The Investiture Ceremony held in the afternoon at the Istana in Sri-Menanti is followed by a Garden Party in the evening. 1998 V. Powell Departure Platform vii. 75 The investiture, when Anthony received his CBE, took place on 27 November 1956. 2004 M. Oke Times of our Lives 306 The investiture of Prince Charles as Prince of Wales is conducted at Caernarfon Castle. b. The action of granting someone, or the fact of being granted, a domain, right, authority, etc. Also Law: the action or ceremony of formally granting tenure of a property or fief; (also) the tenure itself. Now historical.Investiture was typically carried out either in person or by the delivery of tokens of possession; see note at livery of seisin at livery n. Phrases 1. ΘΚΠ society > law > legal right > right of possession or ownership > tenure of property > [noun] tenure1436 investiture1549 land-tenure1876 1549 W. Thomas Hist. Italie f. 130 Lewys of Angio..obteigned of Alexander the inuestiture of the realme of Naples. 1555 E. Bonner Profitable & Necessarye Doctryne sig. L.iv^v The Lorde doth geue unto his vassail a rynge, for a token of the inuestiture of possession or lyuerye of his fee or gyfte. 1612 W. Shute tr. T. de Fougasses Gen. Hist. Venice iv. 538 He receiued the Dutchie as belonging vnto him by the inuestiture of the king of Romans. 1754 J. Erskine Princ. Law Scotl. I. ii. v. 150 By the written feudal law, the investiture behoved to be renewed upon every change, either of the superiour or vassal. 1845 J. Saunders Cabinet Pictures of 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. 1908 J. Craigie & J. Bartholomew Elem. Conveyancing i. iv. 75 Relief..is now [i.e. after 1874] the sum payable by the heir of investiture on the death of the last vassal. 1997 J. A. Green Aristocracy Norman Eng. vii. 195 The relationship between lords and their vassals was established by an act of homage or submission.., followed by solemn investiture with an estate or fief. 4. The action of investing a person, or the fact of being invested, with an attribute, quality, or power; the investing of an attribute, quality, or power in or on a person.In earliest use with allusion to sense 2b. ΘΚΠ the mind > possession > giving > [noun] > endowing with something endowingc1440 endowmentc1460 indution1580 investiture1601 investment1624 clothing1875 1601 Bp. W. Barlow Def. Protestants Relig. iv. 140 A double state of saintes, which S. Paul resembleth to a garment, in this world.., the vesture of this flesh in the other.., their inuestiture with immortalitie. a1631 J. Donne Serm. (1953) I. 237 The appropriation and investiture of an actual and applying faith. a1680 T. Goodwin Of Constit. Govt. Churches of Christ (1696) i. iv. 17 Power Spiritual is an impress of, or an investiture with the Authority of Christ. 1713 S. Parker tr. St. Athanasius Four Orations against Arians II. 89 He that was in full Possession of Absolute and Infinite Perfection and Happiness, receiv'd in his Manhood an Ample Investiture of Grace and Glory. 1769 H. Brooke Fool of Quality IV. 99 So dangerous is it to tempt trustees with the investiture of power. 1833 C. Lamb Barrenness Imaginative Faculty in Last Ess. Elia 181 One incapable of investiture with any grandeur. a1898 J. Caird Fund. Ideas Christianity (1899) II. xix. 246 His investiture with external power and glory. 1938 Austral. Q. Dec. 66 There are many who advocate the immediate investiture of the League [of Nations] with adequate power to coerce the member nations. 1965 R. G. Stern Stitch vi. 55 To be included on Christmas Day in a Stitch family affair was an investiture of cultural nobility. 2010 R. L. Millet in By what Authority? p. ix His representatives were given..a divine investiture of authority. 5. Military. The action or fact of a hostile force surrounding and blockading a town, stronghold, etc.; = investment n. 5. Now historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] sieginga1382 besieging1382 siegec1385 pursuitc1425 obsidionc1429 assizec1430 assieginga1450 sitting down1495 obsession1548 besiege1552 besiegement1564 assiegement1577 investion1590 investing1597 beleaguering1603 blocking1637 investiture1649 blockade1659 begirting1660 investment1702 beleaguerment1826 1649 J. Evelyn Let. 29 Mar. in Diary & Corr. (1852) (modernized text) III. 41 Supposing that Paris is now free of the investiture. 1747 J. Muller Attack & Def. Fortify'd Places i. 118 It held out but 12 Days from the Day of Investiture to the End of the Siege. 1789 D. Ramsay Hist. Amer. Rev. II. xix. 154 The British speedily completed the investiture of the town, both by land and water. 1849 Independent 29 Mar. 66/8 Town and Citadel, have fallen after an investiture of four months. 1898 Daily News 4 Nov. 5/4 A commander..consents to break the line of investiture only when a favourable chance offers. 1911 Publ. Mod. Lang. Assoc. Amer. 26 2 He had a thrilling experience in escaping from the metropolis on the day before its investiture by the German army. 1959 Amer. Slavic & East European Rev. 18 267 The author tells of the subsequent investiture of the city, the arrival of Haller's army and the ultimate Polish victory. 2010 C. J. Rogers Oxf. Encycl. Medieval Warfare & Mil. Technol. I. 266/1 Relief forces marched to the stronghold to break the investiture. 6. The action of investing money or capital (= investment n. 8a). Also: an instance of this (= investment n. 8b). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment improvement1549 investiture1757 investing1766 investment1774 sinking1890 1757 Herald 15 Oct. 26 How fast great possessions are to be augmented by so facile an investiture of savings. 1757 Herald 29 Dec. 95 Investitures of money in such property. 1805 Ann. Rev. & Hist. Lit. 1804 3 308/1 The investiture of additional capitals in the purchase of corn. 1845 N. Brit. Rev. 3 333 It tells us of the impossibility, at present, to get a profitable investiture for a poor man's savings. 1884 L. G. Tyler Lett. & Times Tylers I. xiv. 432 An increase of duties would tempt new investitures of capital. 1953 Manch. Guardian 27 Apr. 6/6 Apart from substantial capital investiture, this would require sufficient supervisory staff. 2010 Mass Transit June 12/1 The investiture of $8 billion in federal stimulus funding for high-speed rail. Compounds attributive. Medieval History. Designating the contest between secular rulers and the papacy in the Middle Ages over the right to grant the benefices of a bishopric or other ecclesiastical dignity, as investiture contest, investiture controversy, etc. ΚΠ 1850 W. Turner tr. F. R. Hasse Life of Anselm x. 135 (heading) Anselm's return. The investiture-controversy [Ger. Investiturstreit]. 1851 E. S. Ffoulkes Man. Eccl. Hist. 339 Philip of France was excommunicated as much for his conduct in the investiture contest as for his incestuous union. 1931 Catholic Hist. Rev. 17 266 The papal policy in the so-called Investiture controversy was not new in the history of the Church. 2006 C. Lindberg Brief Hist. Christianity v. 68 The investiture struggle ended with a compromise between king Henry V and pope Callistus II. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.a1387
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