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investiture: tags: [christianity] [rare]

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Definition:

1. The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
2. (Feudal Law) Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession.
3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.

Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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But like those persons recently decorated who, their investiture once accomplished, would like to see the fountain of honour turned off at the main, Mme. Bontemps would have preferred that, after herself, no one else in her own circle of friends should be made known to the Princess.

Marcel Proust. In Search of Lost Time [volume 2]

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King: Going somewhere?

Blackadder: Umm, yes...

King: Where?

Blackadder: C-- Canterbury...?

King: Good, good! Harry here will accompany you. I would hate to see you murdered before your investiture.

BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Archbishop