INVESTITURE

investment, investiture

(noun) the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank

coronation, enthronement, enthronization, enthronisation, investiture

(noun) the ceremony of installing a new monarch

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

investiture (plural investitures)

The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.

That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.

Source: Wiktionary

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In*ves"ti*ture, n. Etym: [LL. investitura: cf. F. investiture.]

1. The act or ceremony of investing, or the 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.

2. (Feudal Law)

Definition: Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone.

3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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