Word Meanings - DISINVESTITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The act of depriving of investiture. Ogilvie.

DEPRIVEMENT
Deprivation.
INVESTITURE
Livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony oinvestiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. 3. That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering. While we yet have on Our gross
DEPRIVER
One who, or that which, deprives.
DEPRIVATION
the taking away from a clergyman his benefice, or other spiritual promotion or dignity. Note: Deprivation may be a beneficio or ab officio; the first takes away the living, the last degrades and deposes from the order. (more info) 1. The act of
DEPRIVE
1. To take away; to put an end; to destroy. 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak. 2. To dispossess; to bereave; to divest; to hinder from possessing; to debar; to shut out from; -- with a remoter object, usually preceded by of. God hath
DEPRIVABLE
Capable of being, or liable to be, deprived; liable to be deposed. Kings of Spain . . . deprivable for their tyrannies. Prynne.
SUPERINVESTITURE
An outer vestment or garment. Bp. Horne.
INDEPRIVABLE
Incapable of being deprived, or of being taken away.
DISINVESTITURE
The act of depriving of investiture. Ogilvie.