Word Meanings - INVESTITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: 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 investiture of mortal weeds. Trench. (more info) 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. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INVESTITURE)

• Dress
• Garniture
• preparation
• arrangement
• clothing
• habiliments
• accoutrements
• vestments
• uniform
• raiment
• apparel
• attire
• clothes
• array
• garments
• livery
• costume
• garb
• investiture

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of INVESTITURE)

• Disarray
• disarrange
• confuse
• jumble
• divest
• denude
• strip

Related words: (words related to INVESTITURE)

• DIVESTITURE
  The act of stripping, or depriving; the state of being divested; the deprivation, or surrender, of possession of property, rights, etc.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• STRIPPING
  The last milk drawn from a cow at a milking. (more info) 1. The act of one who strips. The mutual bows and courtesies . . . are remants of the original prostrations and strippings of the captive. H. Spencer. Never were cows that required
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• JUMBLEMENT
  Confused mixture.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• DRESSINESS
  The state of being dressy.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• RAIMENT
  1. Clothing in general; vesture; garments; -- usually singular in form, with a collective sense. Living, both food and raiment she supplies. Dryden. 2. An article of dress. Sir P. Sidney.
• DISARRAY
  1. To throw into disorder; to break the array of. Who with fiery steeds Oft disarrayed the foes in battle ranged. Fenton. 2. To take off the dress of; to unrobe. So, as she bade, the witch they disarrayed. Spenser.
• STRIP-LEAF
  Tobacco which has been stripped of its stalks before packing.
• CLOTHESLINE
  A rope or wire on which clothes are hung to dry.
• LIVERY
  gift of clothes made by the master to his servants, prop., a thing delivered, fr. livrer to deliver, L. liberare to set free, in LL., to The act of delivering possession of lands or tenements. The writ by which possession is obtained. Note: It
• STRIPLING
  A youth in the state of adolescence, or just passing from boyhood to manhood; a lad. Inquire thou whose son the stripling is. 1 Sam. xvii. 56.
• ARRAY
  arrangement, dress, F. arroi; a + OF. rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, MHG. gereiten, Icel. reithi rigging, harness; akin to E. 1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement;
• COSTUME
  custom, dress, fr. L. consuetumen , for consuetudo custom. 1. Dress in general; esp., the distinctive style of dress of a people, class, or period. 2. Such an arrangement of accessories, as in a picture, statue, poem, or play, as is appropriate
• STRIPPER
  One who, or that which, strips; specifically, a machine for stripping cards.
• 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
• DISARRAYMENT
  Disorder. Feltham.
• LIVERYMAN
  1. One who wears a livery, as a servant. 2. A freeman of the city, in London, who, having paid certain fees, is entitled to wear the distinguishing dress or livery of the company to which he belongs, and also to enjoy certain other privileges,
• UNDRESS
  To take the dressing, or covering, from; as, to undress a wound. (more info) 1. To divest of clothes; to strip. 2. To divest of ornaments to disrobe.
• SAILCLOTH
  Duck or canvas used in making sails.
• DEMANDRESS
  A woman who demands.
• UNATTIRE
  To divest of attire; to undress.
• BEDCLOTHES
  Blankets, sheets, coverlets, etc., for a bed. Shak.
• UNSTRIPED
  Without marks or striations; nonstriated; as, unstriped muscle fibers. (more info) 1. Not striped.
• IMPREPARATION
  Want of preparation. Hooker.
• OFFENDRESS
  A woman who offends. Shak.
• HEARSECLOTH
  A cloth for covering a coffin when on a bier; a pall. Bp. Sanderson.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• BREECHCLOTH
  A cloth worn around the breech.
• REDELIVERY
  1. Act of delivering back. 2. A second or new delivery or liberation.
• NECKCLOTH
  A piece of any fabric worn around the neck.
• BROADCLOTH
  A fine smooth-faced woolen cloth for men's garments, usually of double width ; -- so called in distinction from woolens three quarters of a yard wide.