Crossword clues for invested
invested
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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To put on. [Obs.]
Can not find one this girdle to invest.
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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.
I do invest you jointly with my power.
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To surround, accompany, or attend.
Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt.
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To confer; to give. [R.]
It investeth a right of government.
--Bacon. (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.
To lay out (money or capital) in business with the view of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: invest)
WordNet
adj. officially endowed with authority or power; "by the Constitution...the president is invested with certain...powers"- John Marshall [syn: invested with]
Usage examples of "invested".
A republic of gods of such opposite tempers and interests required, in every system, the moderating hand of a supreme magistrate, who, by the progress of knowledge and flattery, was gradually invested with the sublime perfections of an Eternal Parent, and an Omnipotent Monarch.
Agricola, though already invested with the title of tribune, was contubernalis in Britain with Suetonius Paulinus.
We are told that Valerian, in chains, but invested with the Imperial purple, was exposed to the multitude, a constant spectacle of fallen greatness.
When the clamor of the soldiers invested the reluctant victims with the ensigns of sovereign authority, they sometimes mourned in secret their approaching fate.
At length, a considerable army, stationed on the Upper Danube, invested with the Imperial purple their leader Aureolus.
As soon as he was informed that the great army of the Danube had invested the well-known valor of Aurelian with Imperial power, he sunk under the fame and merit of his rival.
The unexperienced youth still betrayed, by his manners and language, his rustic education, when, to his own astonishment, as well as that of the world, he was invested by Diocletian with the purple, exalted to the dignity of Caesar, and intrusted with the sovereign command of Egypt and Syria.
Since the age of nineteen he had pleaded with distinction in the tribunals of Rome, ^58 filled a place in the senate, had been invested with the honors of the consulship, and had formed very numerous connections with every order of men, both in Italy and in the provinces.
The former, rising by degrees from the most humble condition, were invested with the civil and military administration of the Roman world.
At the hour of midnight, twenty-three days after the signature of the treaty, Syrianus, duke of Egypt, at the head of five thousand soldiers, armed and prepared for an assault, unexpectedly invested the church of St.
Theonas was invested by the troops of Syrianus, the archbishop, seated on his throne, expected, with calm and intrepid dignity, the approach of death.
Theodosius was invested with the purple in the thirty-third year of his age.
By the hands of the proper officers he was invested with the Imperial garments, the red buskins, white tunic, and purple robe.
A similar oath was repeated by his son, his brother, the clergy, the nobles, and even the ladies of the court: the Latin patriarch was invested with honors and wealth.
After his marriage and elevation, she was invested with the title and pomp of Augusta, and occupied a contiguous apartment in the palace.