▪ I. investure, n.
(ɪnˈvɛstjʊə(r))
[f. invest + -ure. (Not on L. analogies.)]
= investiture, investment.
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. I. 69/1 Heerein he did no more than manie other would haue doone, neither yet after his inuesture did so much as was looked for at his hands. 1586 J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 161 To violate the holye rites, or inuestures of the Fæcials. 1601 R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 265 The investure of Placentia was not graunted to the house of the Farnesi but only to the fourth descendencie. a 1714 Burnet Hist. Ref. an. 1531 (R.), [The kings of England] did at first erect bishopricks, grant investures in them [etc.]. 1825 Blackw. Mag. XVII. 285 We were informed of the issue of the battles of the Pyrenees, and of the investure of St. Sebastian's. 1882 Daily News 24 Nov. 5/8 The Queen will hold an investure of several orders of Knighthood at Windsor Castle this afternoon. |
▪ II. † inˈvesture, v. Obs. rare.
[Partly f. prec. n.; partly f. in-1 or in-2 + vesture.]
1. trans. To invest in an estate or dignity.
| 1552 R. Ascham Germany (1570) 16 He..hath made hym his heyre, and hath already inuestured hym in the Dukedome of Prusia. |
2. To clothe, to habit. Hence † inˈvesturing vbl. n., habit, vesture.
| 1593 Nashe Christ's T. (1613) 41 Those ruddy inuesturings, and scarlet habilements..shall they exhalingly quintessence. a 1661 Fuller (Webster, 1864), Our monks investured in their copes. |