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Ambry :: Ambry (n.) In churches, a kind of closet, niche, cupboard, or locker for utensils, vestments, etc..

Sexton :: Sexton (n.) An under officer of a church, whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels, vestments, etc., belonging to the church, to attend on the officiating clergyman, and to perform other duties pertaining to the church, such as to dig graves, ring the bell, etc..

Scapulary :: Scapulary (n.) A loose sleeveless vestment falling in front and behind, worn by certain religious orders and devout persons..

Cope :: Cope (n.) An ecclesiastical vestment or cloak, semicircular in form, reaching from the shoulders nearly to the feet, and open in front except at the top, where it is united by a band or clasp. It is worn in processions and on some other occasions..

Superior :: Superinvestiture (n.) An outer vestment or garment.

Water :: Water (v. t.) An addition to the shares representing the capital of a stock company so that the aggregate par value of the shares is increased while their value for investment is diminished, or diluted..

Investment :: Investment (n.) The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded..

Gammadion :: Gammadion (n.) A cross formed of four capital gammas, formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments, etc. See Fylfot..

Vestry :: Vestry (n.) A room appendant to a church, in which sacerdotal vestments and sacred utensils are sometimes kept, and where meetings for worship or parish business are held; a sacristy; -- formerly called revestiary..

Vested :: Vested (a.) Clothed; robed; wearing vestments.

Investment :: Investment (n.) The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested..

Tunicle :: Tunicle (n.) A short, close-fitting vestment worn by bishops under the dalmatic, and by subdeacons..

Divestment :: Divestment (n.) The act of divesting.

Vestment :: Vestment (n.) A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dres.

Dalmatic :: Dalmatic (n.) A vestment with wide sleeves, and with two stripes, worn at Mass by deacons, and by bishops at pontifical Mass; -- imitated from a dress originally worn in Dalmatia..

Drapery :: Drapery (n.) A textile fabric used for decorative purposes, especially when hung loosely and in folds carefully disturbed; as: (a) Garments or vestments of this character worn upon the body, or shown in the representations of the human figure in art. (b) Hangings of a room or hall, or about a bed..

Ritualism :: Ritualism (n.) Specifically :(a) The principles and practices of those in the Church of England, who in the development of the Oxford movement, so-called, have insisted upon a return to the use in church services of the symbolic ornaments (altar cloths, encharistic vestments, candles, etc.) that were sanctioned in the second year of Edward VI., and never, as they maintain, forbidden by competennt authority, although generally disused. Schaff-Herzog Encyc. (b) Also, the principles and practices o

Invest :: Invest (v. i.) To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in..

Impersonification :: Impersonification (n.) The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.

Apothesis :: Apothesis (n.) A place on the south side of the chancel in the primitive churches, furnished with shelves, for books, vestments, etc..

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