Investiture
41investiture — in·ves·ti·ture || ɪn vestɪtʃə(r) n. bestowing; authorization bestowing of authority; inauguration, bringing into office …
42investiture — [ɪn vɛstɪtjə, tʃə] noun the action of formally investing a person with honours or rank. ↘a ceremony at which this takes place. Origin ME: from med. L. investitura, from investire (see invest) …
43investiture — n. Installation, induction, habilitation …
44Investiture — ♦ The act of formally putting someone into an office or a landholding; it was a major occasion of dispute in the eleventh and twelfth centuries when reformers opposed lay rulers who invested clergy with the symbols of their positions. (Lynch,… …
45investiture — n 1. installation, instatement, chairing, inauguration; coronation, crowning, enthronement; frocking, Eccles. ordination, Eccles. ordain ment, consecration; induction, introduction, ushering in, bringing in, establishment 2. vestment, robe,… …
46investiture — in·ves·ti·ture …
47investiture — in•ves•ti•ture [[t]ɪnˈvɛs tɪ tʃər, ˌtʃʊər[/t]] n. 1) the act or process of investing, as with a rank, office, or title 2) the state of being invested, as with a garment, quality, etc 3) something that covers or adorns 4) archaic something that… …
48Investiture — The process of conferring authority on the Commission to act as a governmental body for the EC …
49investiture — /ɪnˈvɛstɪtʃə / (say in vestichuh) noun 1. the act of investing. See invest (def. 12). 2. the ceremony in which a person is invested with an office or rank, usually by the putting on of the relevant insignia. 3. the state of being invested, as… …
50investiture — This term (from the Latin investire, meaning to clothe or to robe ) refers to the ceremony in which a person formally receives the insignia of an office. During the medieval period, a vassal, after taking an oath to his lord, was invested with …
