Part 6045

<blockquote>The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony o<?/ corporal <b>investiture</b>, or open delivery of possession. <i>Blackstone.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.</def>

<blockquote>While we yet have on Our gross <b>investiture</b> of mortal weeds. <i>Trench.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Investive</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*vest"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Investing.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<i>Mir. for Mag.</i>

<h1>Investment</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*vest"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act of investing, or the state of being invested.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.</def>

<blockquote>Whose white <b>investments</b> figure innocence. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <fld>(Mil.)</fld> <def>The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.</def>

<blockquote>The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its <b>investments</b>. <i>Marshall.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.</def>

<blockquote>Before the <b>investment</b> could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. <i>A. Hamilton.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>An <b>investment</b> in ink, paper, and steel pens. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Investor</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*vest"or</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who invests.</def>

<h1>Investure</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*ves"ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Investiture; investment.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Bp. Burnet.</i>

<h1>Investure</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*ves"ture</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To clothe; to invest; to install.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> "Monks . . . <i>investured</i> in their copes."

<i>Fuller.</i>

<h1>Inveteracy</h1> <Xpage=785>

<hw>In*vet"er*a*cy</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <er>Inveterate</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>Firm establishment by long continuance; firmness or deep-rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; <as>as, the <ex>inveteracy</ex> of custom, habit, or disease</as>; -- usually in a bad sense; <as>as, the <ex>inveteracy</ex> of prejudice or of error</as>.</def>

<blockquote>An <b>inveteracy</b> of evil habits that will prompt him to contract more. <i>A. Tucker.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Malignity; spitefulness; virulency.</def>