'Investiture' definitions:
Definition of 'investiture'
(from WordNet)
noun
The ceremony of installing a new monarch [syn: coronation, enthronement, enthronization, enthronisation, 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 [syn: investment, investiture]
Definition of 'Investiture'
From: GCIDE
- Investiture \In*ves"ti*ture\ (?; 135), n. [LL. investitura: cf. F. investiture.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. 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. [1913 Webster]
- He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. --Sir W. Raleigh. [1913 Webster]
- 2. (Feudal Law) Livery of seizin. [1913 Webster]
- The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony of corporal investiture, or open delivery of possession. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]
- 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. [1913 Webster]
- While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. --Trench. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'investiture'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- accedence,
- acceptance,
- accession,
- accommodation,
- accordance,
- admission,
- admittance,
- anchorage,
- apostolic orders,
- apparel,
- appointment,
- array,
- attire,
- award,
- awarding,
- baptism,
- bedizenment,
- bestowal,
- bestowment,
- calling,
- canonization,
- clothes,
- clothing,
- colonization,
- communication,
- concession,
- conferment,
- conferral,
- consecration,
- contribution,
- coronation,
- costume,
- deliverance,
- delivery,
- donation,
- drapery,
- dress,
- dressing,
- duds,
- election,
- endowment,
- enlistment,
- enrollment,
- enthronement,
- establishment,
- fashion,
- fatigues,
- feathers,
- fig,
- fixation,
- foundation,
- furnishment,
- garb,
- garments,
- gear,
- gifting,
- giving,
- grant,
- granting,
- guise,
- habiliment,
- habit,
- holy orders,
- immission,
- impartation,
- impartment,
- inaugural,
- inauguration,
- induction,
- initiation,
- installation,
- installment,
- instatement,
- institution,
- intromission,
- investment,
- liberality,
- linen,
- lodgment,
- major orders,
- minor orders,
- mooring,
- nomination,
- offer,
- ordainment,
- orders,
- ordination,
- peopling,
- placement,
- plantation,
- population,
- presentment,
- provision,
- rags,
- raiment,
- reading in,
- robes,
- settlement,
- settling,
- sportswear,
- style,
- subscription,
- supplying,
- surrender,
- taking office,
- threads,
- togs,
- toilette,
- trim,
- vestment,
- vesture,
- vouchsafement,
- wear,
- wearing apparel