Investiture

4 definitions found

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

  Investiture \In*ves"ti*ture\ (?; 135), n. [LL. investitura: cf.
     F. investiture.]
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     1. The act or ceremony of investing, or the state of being
        invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also,
        the right of so investing.


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              He had refused to yield up to the pope the
              investiture of bishops.               --Sir W.
                                                    Raleigh.
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     2. (Feudal Law) Livery of seizin.
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              The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the
              ceremony of corporal investiture, or open delivery
              of possession.                        --Blackstone.
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     3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment;
        clothing; covering.
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              While we yet have on
              Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. --Trench.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  investiture
       n 1: the ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: {coronation},
             {enthronement}, {enthronization}, {enthronisation}]
       2: the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an
          office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or
          rank [syn: {investment}]

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

  114 Moby Thesaurus words for "investiture":
     accedence, acceptance, accession, accommodation, accordance,
     admission, admittance, anchorage, apostolic orders, apparel,
     appointment, array, attire, award, awarding, baptism, bedizenment,
     bestowal, bestowment, calling, canonization, clothes, clothing,
     colonization, communication, concession, conferment, conferral,
     consecration, contribution, coronation, costume, deliverance,
     delivery, donation, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, election,
     endowment, enlistment, enrollment, enthronement, establishment,
     fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fixation, foundation,
     furnishment, garb, garments, gear, gifting, giving, grant,
     granting, guise, habiliment, habit, holy orders, immission,
     impartation, impartment, inaugural, inauguration, induction,
     initiation, installation, installment, instatement, institution,
     intromission, investment, liberality, linen, lodgment,
     major orders, minor orders, mooring, nomination, offer, ordainment,
     orders, ordination, peopling, placement, plantation, population,
     presentment, provision, rags, raiment, reading in, robes,
     settlement, settling, sportswear, style, subscription, supplying,
     surrender, taking office, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment,
     vesture, vouchsafement, wear, wearing apparel
  
  

From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]:

  INVESTITURE, estates. The act of giving possession of lands by actual seisin 
  When livery of seisin was made to a person by the common law he was invested 
  with the whole fee; this, the foreign feudists and sometimes 'our own law 
  writers call investiture, but generally speaking, it is termed by the common 
  law writers, the seisin of the fee. 2 Bl. Com. 209, 313; Feame on Rem. 223, 
  n. (z). 
       2. By the canon law investiture was made per baculum et annulum, by the 
  ring and crosier, which were regarded as symbols of the episcopal 
  jurisdiction. Ecclesiastical and secular fiefs were governed by the same 
  rule in this respect that previously to investiture, neither a bishop, abbey 
  or lay lord could take possession of a fief. conferred upon them previously 
  to investiture by the prince. 
       3. Pope Gregory VI. first disputed the right of sovereigns to give 
  investiture of ecclesiastical fiefs, A. D. 1045, but Pope Gregory VII. 
  carried. on the dispute with much more vigor, A. D. 1073. He excommunicated 
  the emperor, Henry IV. The Popes Victor III., Urban II. and Paul II., 
  continued the contest. This dispute, it is said, cost Christendom sixty-
  three battles, and the lives of many millions of men. De Pradt.