INVESTITURE
\ɪnvˈɛstɪt͡ʃə], \ɪnvˈɛstɪtʃə], \ɪ_n_v_ˈɛ_s_t_ɪ_tʃ_ə]\
Definitions of INVESTITURE
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1914 - Nuttall's Standard dictionary of the English language
- 1874 - Etymological and pronouncing dictionary of the English language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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the ceremony of installing a new monarch
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the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
By Princeton University
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The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
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That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
By Oddity Software
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The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
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That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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The act or the right of investing or putting in possession: specifically, in the Old World, the right claimed by temporal rulers of investing bishops with authority within their dominions. The word is little used in the affairs of this country, in any sense.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By Nuttall, P.Austin.
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The act or right of giving legal possession; as applied to a R. Cath. Bishop, the act of giving the ring and crosier, the external signs of his dignity and office.
By Stormonth, James, Phelp, P. H.
