Definition of Investiture

1. Noun. The ceremony of installing a new monarch.


2. Noun. The ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank.
Exact synonyms: Investment
Generic synonyms: Promotion
Derivative terms: Invest

Definition of Investiture

1. n. The act or ceremony of investing, or the state of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.

Definition of Investiture

1. Noun. The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right. ¹

2. Noun. That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Investiture

1. [n -S]

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Literary usage of Investiture

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Standard Work of Reference in Art, Literature (1907)
"The emperor ceded the right of investiture by the riri;: and the pastoral staff,—thereby renouncing that at which the church most demurred, the appearance ..."

2. Church History by Johann Heinrich Kurtz (1889)
"The contemporary English investiture Controversy was brought earlier to a conclusion. William the Conqueror had unopposed put Norman prelates in ..."

3. History of Prussia by Herbert Tuttle, Herbert Baxter Adams (1883)
"He had not yet done homage in Warsaw, and received the investiture from the King ... The King maintained, and the Diet upheld him, that the investiture must ..."

4. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"(i) Feudal investiture.—But by the mere words of the deed the feoffment is by no ... This livery of seisin is no other than the pure feudal investiture, ..."

5. History of the Christian Church by John Fletcher Hurst (1897)
"THE controversy over investiture reached the usual end of a compromise. The Concordat of Worms in 1122 made the following provisions : The emperor to give ..."

6. A Digest of the Laws of England Respecting Real Property by William Cruise (1818)
"As it was frequently inconvenient for the lord to go to the lands intended to be granted, the improper investiture was introduced j which was a symbolical ..."

7. The Foundations of England; Or, Twelve Centuries of British History (B.C. 55 by James Henry Ramsay (1898)
"investiture " in strictness meant the formal act of institution, evidenced in the ... But under the question of the symbolical investiture lay the essential ..."

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