Definition of invest

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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..

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Investigating :: Investigating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Investigat.
Astrometeorology :: Astrometeorology (n.) The investigation of the relation between the sun, moon, and stars, and the weather..
Install :: Install (v. t.) To place in an office, rank, or order; to invest with any charge by the usual ceremonies; to instate; to induct; as, to install an ordained minister as pastor of a church; to install a college president..
Governor :: Governor (n.) One who governs; especially, one who is invested with the supreme executive authority in a State; a chief ruler or magistrate; as, the governor of Pennsylvania..
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.
Rehabilitate :: Rehabilitate (v. t.) To invest or clothe again with some right, authority, or dignity; to restore to a former capacity; to reinstate; to qualify again; to restore, as a delinquent, to a former right, rank, or privilege lost or forfeited; -- a term of civil and canon law..
Dictator :: Dictator (n.) One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power..
Requisitor :: Requisitor (n.) One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts..
Disquisitive :: Disquisitive (a.) Relating to disquisition; fond discussion or investigation; examining; inquisitive.
Investigative :: Investigative (a.) Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.
Allow :: Allow (v. t.) To sanction; to invest; to intrust.
Science :: Science (n.) Any branch or department of systematized knowledge considered as a distinct field of investigation or object of study; as, the science of astronomy, of chemistry, or of mind..
Concrete :: Concrete (a.) Standing for an object as it exists in nature, invested with all its qualities, as distinguished from standing for an attribute of an object; -- opposed to abstract..
Blockade :: Blockade (v. t. ) To shut up, as a town or fortress, by investing it with troops or vessels or war for the purpose of preventing ingress or egress, or the introduction of supplies. See note under Blockade, n..
Prebendate :: Prebendate (v. t.) To invest with the office of prebendary; to present to a prebend.
Insearch :: Insearch (v. t.) To make search after; to investigate or examine; to ensearch.
Geometry :: Geometry (n.) That branch of mathematics which investigates the relations, properties, and measurement of solids, surfaces, lines, and angles; the science which treats of the properties and relations of magnitudes; the science of the relations of space..
Institution :: Institution (n.) The act or ceremony of investing a clergyman with the spiritual part of a benefice, by which the care of souls is committed to his charge..
Investure :: Investure (n.) Investiture; investment.
Warrant :: Warrant (n.) That which warrants or authorizes; a commission giving authority, or justifying the doing of anything; an act, instrument, or obligation, by which one person authorizes another to do something which he has not otherwise a right to do; an act or instrument investing one with a right or authority, and thus securing him from loss or damage; commission; authority..
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