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investure

/ɪnˈvɛstjʊə(ɹ)/

investure verb: to clothe; to invest.

Verb

investure (third-person singular simple present investures, present participle investuring, simple past and past participle investured)

  1. (obsolete) To clothe; to invest.
    • Monks […] investured in their copes.1655, Thomas Fuller, The Church-history of Britain; […], London: […] Iohn Williams […], →OCLC, (please specify |book=I to XI)

Noun

investure

  1. (obsolete) investiture; investment
    • they gained the Power of giving Investures, receiving Appeals to Rome, and of sending Legates to England1679–1715, Gilbert Burnet, “(please specify the page)”, in The History of the Reformation of the Church of England., London: […] T[homas] H[odgkin] for Richard Chiswell, […]

Forms of investure

third-person singular presentinvestures
present participleinvesturing
past participleinvestured
pastinvestured

Questions about investure

What does investure mean?
Investure means to clothe; to invest.
What part of speech is investure?
Investure can be a verb or a noun.
How do you pronounce investure?
Investure is pronounced /ɪnˈvɛstjʊə(ɹ)/.
What is the past tense of investure?
The past tense of investure is investured.

Words near investure in the dictionary

  1. investorship
  2. investorships
  3. investress
  4. investresses
  5. invests
  6. investure
  7. investured
  8. investures
  9. investuring
  10. invet'rate
  11. inveteracies

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