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investiture    音标拼音: [ɪnv'ɛstətʃɚ]
n. 授职,封爵

授职,封爵

investiture
n 1: the ceremony of installing a new monarch [synonym:
{coronation}, {enthronement}, {enthronization},
{enthronisation}, {investiture}]
2: the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an
office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
[synonym: {investment}, {investiture}]

Investiture \In*ves"ti*ture\ (?; 135), n. [LL. investitura: cf.
F. investiture.]
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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.
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He had refused to yield up to the pope the
investiture of bishops. --Sir W.
Raleigh.
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2. (Feudal Law) Livery of seizin.
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The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the
ceremony of corporal investiture, or open delivery
of possession. --Blackstone.
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3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment;
clothing; covering.
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While we yet have on
Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. --Trench.
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114 Moby Thesaurus words for "investiture":
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

INVESTITURE, estates. The act of giving possession of lands by actual seisin
When livery of seisin was made to a person by the common law he was invested
with the whole fee; this, the foreign feudists and sometimes 'our own law
writers call investiture, but generally speaking, it is termed by the common
law writers, the seisin of the fee. 2 Bl. Com. 209, 313; Feame on Rem. 223,
n. (z).
2. By the canon law investiture was made per baculum et annulum, by the
ring and crosier, which were regarded as symbols of the episcopal
jurisdiction. Ecclesiastical and secular fiefs were governed by the same
rule in this respect that previously to investiture, neither a bishop, abbey
or lay lord could take possession of a fief. conferred upon them previously
to investiture by the prince.
3. Pope Gregory VI. first disputed the right of sovereigns to give
investiture of ecclesiastical fiefs, A. D. 1045, but Pope Gregory VII.
carried. on the dispute with much more vigor, A. D. 1073. He excommunicated
the emperor, Henry IV. The Popes Victor III., Urban II. and Paul II.,
continued the contest. This dispute, it is said, cost Christendom sixty-
three battles, and the lives of many millions of men. De Pradt.


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  • Investiture - Wikipedia
    Investiture (from the Latin preposition in and verb vestire, "dress" from vestis "robe") is a formal installation or ceremony that a person undergoes, often related to membership in Christian religious institutes as well as Christian knighthoods or damehoods, in addition to government offices
  • INVESTITURE Definition Meaning - Merriam-Webster
    In its original meaning, an investiture was the clothing of a new officeholder in garments that symbolized power The Middle Ages saw much debate over the investiture of bishops by kings and emperors
  • INVESTITURE | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
    The investiture of the new president will take place this evening In this program, investiture is the central ritual for instilling that spirit within the body of the new leader Both events occur in contexts involving the transfer of power objects during the course of investiture
  • Investiture - SFA
    An investiture ceremony is a prestigious academic tradition that marks the formal installation of a new university president During this ceremony, the president is officially "vested" with the powers of their office, symbolizing the beginning of a new chapter in the university's history
  • INVESTITURE Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com
    the formal bestowal, confirmation, or presentation of rank, office, or a possessory or prescriptive right, usually involving the giving of insignia or an official title lay investiture
  • Investiture - definition of investiture by The Free Dictionary
    investiture - the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
  • INVESTITURE definition and meaning | Collins English Dictionary
    The ceremony held was an act of investiture to mark the monarch's official ascension to the throne rather than a coronation
  • What does investiture mean? - Definitions. net
    Investiture is a formal ceremony or process where a person is given or granted an official rank, authority, rights, or symbols of office, often in a religious, political, or other institutional context
  • investiture - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
    investiture (countable and uncountable, plural investitures) The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right
  • Investiture - Definition, Meaning Synonyms - Vocabulary. com
    Investiture is what happens when a government official, a judge, or a head of state is formally put into office or promoted to a higher rank The investiture of a king or queen involves an elaborate, lengthy ceremony





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