Invested

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Invest \In*vest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invested}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Investing}.] [L. investire, investitum; pref. in- in +
     vestire to clothe, fr. vestis clothing: cf. F. investir. See
     {Vest}.]
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     1. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; --


        opposed to {divest}. Usually followed by with, sometimes
        by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
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     2. To put on. [Obs.]
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              Can not find one this girdle to invest. --Spenser.
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     3. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in
        possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to
        adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or
        glory; to invest with an estate.
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              I do invest you jointly with my power. --Shak.
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     4. To surround, accompany, or attend.
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              Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the
              guilt.                                --Hawthorne.
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     5. To confer; to give. [R.]
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              It investeth a right of government.   --Bacon.
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     6. (Mil.) To inclose; to surround or hem in with troops, so
        as to intercept reinforcements of men and provisions and
        prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.
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     7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the view of
        obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank
        stock.
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     8. Hence: To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a
        view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that
        expended, or to achieve a useful pupose; as, to invest a
        lot of time in teaching one's children.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  invested
       adj : officially endowed with authority or power; "by the
             Constitution...the president is invested with
             certain...powers"- John Marshall [syn: {invested with}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  59 Moby Thesaurus words for "invested":
     accoutered, appareled, armed, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched,
     capped, catered, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed,
     decked, dight, disguised, dotal, dower, dowered, dowry, dressed,
     endowed, endued, equipped, fitted, fitted out, furnished, garbed,
     garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, heeled, hooded, liveried,
     mantled, outfitted, pantalooned, pensionary, prepared, provided,
     purveyed, raimented, rigged, rigged out, robed, shod, shoed,
     stipendiary, subsidiary, supplied, tired, togged, tricked out,
     trousered, vested, vestmented