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Definition of Invests
1. invest [v] - See also: invest
Lexicographical Neighbors of Invests
Literary usage of Invests
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Life of George Washington: Commander in Chief of the American Forces by John Marshall (1805)
"... CHAPTER X. Greene invests Camden. ... Lord Rawdon retires into the lower
country....Greene invests ..."
2. History of the War in the Peninsula and in the South of France: From the by William Francis Patrick Napier (1842)
"... the •iege is upon the point of being raised—Two flying bridges are established—The
fifth division invests St. Cristoval and the bridge-head—'The rMr. ..."
3. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1880)
"Gratian invests Theodosius with the Eastern Empire.—His Character and Success.—Peace
and Settlement of the Goths. IN the second year of the reign of ..."
4. The history of England from the Revolution to the death of George the second by Tobias George Smollett (1848)
"HE invests LIMERICK ; BUT is OBLIGED TO RAISE THE SIEGE, AND RETURNS TO ENGLAND.
— CORK AND KINSALE REDUCED BY THE EARL OF MARLBOROUGH. ..."
5. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1911)
"... what it is but the will invests it with a personal and meritorious character.
What man first would and could not, he now can and will. ..."
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