investure
English
Verb
investure (third-person singular simple present investures, present participle investuring, simple past and past participle investured)
- (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
- Fuller
- Monks […] investured in their copes.
- Fuller
Noun
investure
- (obsolete) investiture; investment
- (Can we find and add a quotation of Bishop Burnet to this entry?)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for investure in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)