单词 | vestiture |
释义 | vestituren. 1. Investiture of a person in an office or with power, etc.; = investiture n. 3a, 4 rare. 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 1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 419 He resigned to God and to seint Peter þe vestiture of prelates þat was i-doo by seculer hondes. 1861 J. A. Alexander Gospel Jesus Christ xxxix. 521 A proof of man's original formation in God's image, and his original vestiture with delegated power as God's vicegerent. 2. concrete. That which clothes or covers: ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > herb or herbaceous plant > [noun] > herbage or grass > cultivated or for pasture pasturea1400 fogc1400 vesture1455 vestiturec1460 pasturagea1522 feed1580 agistment1598 pasture grass1628 ear-grass1686 artificial grass1733 seeds1794 tath1807 green stuff1895 c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 152 Þe saide Abbot and oþer lordes aforenamed..haue i-suffrid þat þe saide John the vestiture (or grasse) of þe same telthe þe which abode..in þis ȝere alone may gadur & haue. c1460 in A. Clark Eng. Reg. Oseney Abbey (1907) 156 Þe vestiture of þe saide In-hoke. b. Clothes, clothing, vesture. Also transferred and figurative.The first quotation is the source of the inexact definition given by Worcester (1846) and some later Dictionaries. 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 1841 R. Park Pantology xiv. iv. 472 Under the head of Vestiture, we include all those arts which relate immediately to the manufacture of cloth, and preparation of clothing. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xl. 366 I claim to be the first who has reduced all vestiture to a primitive form. 1856 E. K. Kane Arctic Explor. II. i. 23 A pair of bear-skin breeches,..the characteristic and national vestiture of this strange people. 1877 Tinsley's Mag. 20 512/1 It is night in the streets of a fair Italian city, and the lonely queen of light is..arraying in snowy vestiture the tall shafts and broad walls of marble that rise here and there. 1879 J. Hawthorne Sebastian Strome II. xi. 175 Mary..felt herself pointedly unequal to introducing her ungainly news under a graceful vestiture of words. DerivativesΚΠ 1623 H. Cockeram Eng. Dict. i Vestitured [printed -uted], apparelled. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1917; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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