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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Naturalization :: Naturalization (n.) The act or process of naturalizing, esp. of investing an alien with the rights and privileges of a native or citizen; also, the state of being naturalized..
Drama :: Drama (n.) A series of real events invested with a dramatic unity and interest.
Commandress :: Commandress (n.) A woman invested with authority to command.
Investment :: Investment (n.) That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
Possession :: Possession (v. t.) To invest with property.
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..
Try :: Try (v. t.) To examine or investigate judicially; to examine by witnesses or other judicial evidence and the principles of law; as, to try a cause, or a criminal..
Fund :: Fund (n.) An invested sum, whose income is devoted to a specific object; as, the fund of an ecclesiastical society; a fund for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object..
Condition :: Condition (n.) To invest with, or limit by, conditions; to burden or qualify by a condition; to impose or be imposed as the condition of..
Enfranchise :: Enfranchise (v. t.) To endow with a franchise; to incorporate into a body politic and thus to invest with civil and political privileges; to admit to the privileges of a freeman.
Materialize :: Materialize (v. t.) To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects..
Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
Ascertainment :: Ascertainment (n.) The act of ascertaining; a reducing to certainty; a finding out by investigation; discovery.
Privateness :: Privateness (n.) The state of one not invested with public office.
Presbyterianism :: Presbyterianism (n.) That form of church government which invests presbyters with all spiritual power, and admits no prelates over them; also, the faith and polity of the Presbyterian churches, taken collectively..
Dignify :: Dignify (v. t.) To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor.
Clothe :: Clothe (v. t.) Fig.: To cover or invest, as with a garment; as, to clothe one with authority or power..
Curiosity :: Curiosity (n.) Disposition to inquire, investigate, or seek after knowledge; a desire to gratify the mind with new information or objects of interest; inquisitiveness..
Veil :: Veil (n.) Fig.: To invest; to cover; to hide; to conceal.
Bluebeard :: Bluebeard (n.) The hero of a mediaeval French nursery legend, who, leaving home, enjoined his young wife not to open a certain room in his castle. She entered it, and found the murdered bodies of his former wives. -- Also used adjectively of a subject which it is forbidden to investigate..
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