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2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Investiture \In*ves"ti*ture\ (?; 135), n. [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) Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony o? corporal investiture, 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. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: investiture n : the ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: {coronation}, {enthronement}, {enthronization}]
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