Investiture Definition

ĭn-vĕstĭ-cho͝or, -chər
noun
A formal investing as with an office, power, or authority, often with appropriate symbols or robes.
Webster's New World
Anything that clothes or covers; vesture.
Webster's New World
Ceremonial transfer of land to a tenant.
Webster's New World
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Other Word Forms of Investiture

Noun

Singular:
investiture
Plural:
investitures

Origin of Investiture

  • Middle English from Medieval Latin investītūra from Latin investīre to clothe invest

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Middle French investiture, from Medieval Latin investītūra.

    From Wiktionary

Investiture Sentence Examples

  • On the other hand the pope ceded to the emperor the right of investiture by the sceptre.

  • When Henry the Lion, duke of Saxony and Bavaria, was placed under the imperial ban in 1180, Otto's services were rewarded by the investiture of the dukedom of Bavaria at Altenburg.

  • They made him senator of Rome and vicar of Tuscany, and promised him the investiture of the regno provided he stipulated that it should not be held in combination with the empire.

  • The commune of Cremona is first mentioned in a document of r098, recording its investiture by the countess Matilda with the territory known as Isola Fulcheria.

  • The figure B also shows the peculiar neural investiture formed by the cerebral arteries in Limulus and the derivation from this of the arteries to the limbs, III, IV, VI, whereas in Scorpio the latter have a separate origin from the anterior aorta.

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Words Starting With

IININV

Words Ending With

EREURE

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Words Starting With I and Ending With E

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11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With I11 Letter Words Ending With E