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investient

investient adjective: serving to cover or clothe.

Adjective

investient (comparative more investient, superlative most investient)

  1. Serving to cover or clothe.
    • That therefore the Shells served as Plasms or Moulds to this Sand ; which , when consolidated , and afterwards in tract of Time by this means freed from its investient Shell , is of the same Shape and Size as is the Cavity of the Shell1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC

Forms of investient

comparativemore investient
superlativemost investient

Origin of investient

From Latin investiens, present participle of investire.

Questions about investient

What does investient mean?
Investient means serving to cover or clothe.
What part of speech is investient?
Investient is an adjective.

Words near investient in the dictionary

  1. invester
  2. investest
  3. investeth
  4. investibility
  5. investible
  6. investient
  7. investigability
  8. investigable
  9. investigatable
  10. investigate
  11. investigated

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