Definition of invest

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Invest (v. t.) To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town..

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Siege :: Siege (n.) The sitting of an army around or before a fortified place for the purpose of compelling the garrison to surrender; the surrounding or investing of a place by an army, and approaching it by passages and advanced works, which cover the besiegers from the enemy's fire. See the Note under Blockade..
Gird :: Gird (v. t.) To clothe; to swathe; to invest.
Funding :: Funding (a.) Investing in the public funds.
Special :: Special (a.) Limited in range; confined to a definite field of action, investigation, or discussion; as, a special dictionary of commercial terms; a special branch of study..
Impatronization :: Impatronization (n.) Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession.
Unemployed :: Unemployed (a.) Not invested or used; as, unemployed capital..
Exarch :: Exarch (n.) A viceroy; in Ravenna, the title of the viceroys of the Byzantine emperors; in the Eastern Church, the superior over several monasteries; in the modern Greek Church, a deputy of the patriarch , who visits the clergy, investigates ecclesiastical cases, etc..
Invest :: Invest (v. i.) To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in..
Pervestigation :: Pervestigation (n.) Thorough investigation.
Requisitor :: Requisitor (n.) One who makes reqisition; esp., one authorized by a requisition to investigate facts..
Revenue :: Revenue (n.) That which returns, or comes back, from an investment; the annual rents, profits, interest, or issues of any species of property, real or personal; income..
Palatine :: Palatine (n.) One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count..
Investing :: Investing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Inves.
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..
Vest :: Vest (n.) To clothe with authority, power, or the like; to put in possession; to invest; to furnish; to endow; -- followed by with before the thing conferred; as, to vest a court with power to try cases of life and death..
Pervestigate :: Pervestigate (v. t.) To investigate thoroughly.
Legislature :: Legislature (n.) The body of persons in a state or kingdom invested with power to make and repeal laws; a legislative body.
Aetiology :: Aetiology (n.) The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things..
Climatology :: Climatology (n.) The science which treats of climates and investigates their phenomena and causes.
Analogism :: Analogism (n.) Investigation of things by the analogy they bear to each other.
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