Definition of invest

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Invest (v. t.) To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe..

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Property :: Property (v. t.) To invest which properties, or qualities..
Devil :: Devil (v. t.) To make like a devil; to invest with the character of a devil.
Ethnographer :: Ethnographer (n.) One who investigates ethnography.
Invest :: Invest (v. t.) To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate..
Investigator :: Investigator (n.) One who searches diligently into a subject.
Embody :: Embody (v. t.) To form into a body; to invest with a body; to collect into a body, a united mass, or a whole; to incorporate; as, to embody one's ideas in a treatise..
Divest :: Divest (v. t.) To unclothe; to strip, as of clothes, arms, or equipage; -- opposed to invest..
Plenipotentiary :: Plenipotentiary (a.) Containing or conferring full power; invested with full power; as, plenipotentiary license; plenipotentiary ministers..
Indue :: Indue (v. t.) To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities..
Question :: Question (n.) Hence, a subject of investigation, examination, or debate; theme of inquiry; matter to be inquired into; as, a delicate or doubtful question..
Vaginated :: Vaginated (a.) Invested with, or as if with, a sheath; as, a vaginate stem, or one invested by the tubular base of a leaf..
Impersonification :: Impersonification (n.) The act of impersonating; personification; investment with personality; representation in a personal form.
Quaere :: Quaere (v. imperative.) Inquire; question; see; -- used to signify doubt or to suggest investigation.
Impersonate :: Impersonate (v. t.) To invest with personality; to endow with the form of a living being.
Chorion :: Chorion (n.) The outer membrane which invests the fetus in the womb; also, the similar membrane investing many ova at certain stages of development..
Flambeau :: Flambeau (n.) A flaming torch, esp. one made by combining together a number of thick wicks invested with a quick-burning substance (anciently, perhaps, wax; in modern times, pitch or the like); hence, any torch..
Genealogize :: Genealogize (v. i.) To investigate, or relate the history of, descents..
Privileged :: Privileged (a.) Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity..
Astrometeorology :: Astrometeorology (n.) The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather..
Herald :: Herald (n.) An officer whose business was to denounce or proclaim war, to challenge to battle, to proclaim peace, and to bear messages from the commander of an army. He was invested with a sacred and inviolable character..
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