Crossword clues for investiture
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Investiture \In*ves"ti*ture\ (?; 135), n. [LL. investitura: cf. F. investiture.]
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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.
He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops.
--Sir W. Raleigh. -
(Feudal Law) Livery of seizin.
The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony of corporal investiture, or open delivery of possession.
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That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds.
--Trench.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., from Medieval Latin investitura, from past participle stem of Latin investire "to clothe" (see invest).
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right. 2 That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.
WordNet
n. the ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, enthronisation]
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]
Wikipedia
Investiture, from the Latin (preposition in and verb vestire, 'dress' from vestis 'robe') is a term for the formal installation of an incumbent as the insignia can include the formal dress and adornment (robes of state, headdress etc.) which the etymology refers to, but it extends to other regalia and to a throne or other seat of office. It is used both as a generic term, and for more specific cases as coronation and enthronement.
Usage examples of "investiture".
Arab menaces Medina, The Aethiop has intrenched himself in Sennaar, And keeps the Egyptian rebel well employed, Who denies homage, claims investiture As price of tardy aid.
My plan was to stage the play the following week when both the viceroy, archbishop, and bishop inquisitor were all in Puebla for the investiture of a bishop there.
On Monday, two days before the investiture, Celia received a transatlantic call from Bill Ingram.
King of Naples not to release a man who, ever since the 1st of June, 1496, had been a declared rebel, he pronounced a sentence of confiscation against Virginio Orsini and his whole family in a secret consistory, which sat on the 26th of October following--that is to say, in the early days of the reign of Frederic, whom he knew to be entirely at his command, owing to the King's great desire of getting the investiture from him.
As soon as the decree of the senate was transmitted to the emperor, he assembled a great council in his camp, and before the investiture of the censor elect, he apprised him of the difficulty and importance of his great office.
Although my father and mother considered the highlight of the year to be my passing out as senior Wrangler with the offer of a Prize fellowship at Trinity, I thought Dad's investiture at Buckingham Palace wasn't to be sneezed at.
Exactly according to the rules laid down a century before by French marshal Sebastien de Vauban for investiture, the first of a series of parallel encircling trenches was opened by the allies with drums beating and flags flying about six hundred yards from the besieged fortifications, out of range of small-arms fire and grape and canister shot.
His gratitude and policy conferred on Robert and his posterity the ducal title, ^43 with the investiture of Apulia, Calabria, and all the lands, both in Italy and Sicily, which his sword could rescue from the schismatic Greeks and the unbelieving Saracens.
At the moment of his investiture, however, he runs off with a scarlet woman, who inevitably elopes with another, absconding with every peso of Guzman's ill-gotten savings.
The woman gestured toward the merry folk feasting in the hall as they celebrated the coming investiture.
But in the quarrel of the investitures, they were deprived of their influence over the episcopal chapters.
Henry the Fourth, of Germany, asserted the right of investitures, the prerogative of confirming his bishops by the delivery of the ring and crosier.
For processions and investitures the musicians play noble harmonies of great complexity, using themes beyond the human understanding.