Word Meanings - SUPERINVESTITURE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

An outer vestment or garment. Bp. Horne.

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• OUTER
  Being on the outside; external; farthest or farther from the interior, from a given station, or from any space or position regarded as a center or starting place; -- opposed to inner; as, the outer wall; the outer court or gate; the outer stump
• GARMENT
  Any article of clothing, as a coat, a gown, etc. No man putteth a piece of new cloth unto old garment. Matt. ix. 16.
• HORNET
  A large, strong wasp. The European species is of a dark brown and yellow color. It is very pugnacious, and its sting is very severe. Its nest is constructed of a paperlike material, and the layers of comb are hung together by columns. The American
• OUTERLY
  1. Utterly; entirely. Chaucer. 2. Toward the outside. Grew.
• GARMENTURE
  Clothing; dress.
• HORNER
  The British sand lance or sand eel . (more info) 1. One who works or deal in horn or horns. Grew. 2. One who winds or blows the horn. Sherwood. 3. One who horns or cuckolds. Massinger.
• HORNED
  Furnished with a horn or horns; furnished with a hornlike process or appendage; as, horned cattle; having some part shaped like a horn. The horned moon with one bright star Within the nether tip. Coleridge. Horned bee , a British wild bee , having
• OUTERMOST
  Being on the extreme external part; farthest outward; as, the outermost row. Boyle.
• VESTMENT
  A covering or garment; some part of clothing or dress; specifically , any priestly garment. "Royal vestiment." Chaucer. "Priests in holy vestments." Shak. The sculptor could not give vestments suitable to the quality of the persons represented.
• HORNEL
  The European sand eel.
• GARMENTED
  Having on a garment; attired; enveloped, as with a garment. A lovely lady garmented in light From her own beauty. Shelley.
• HORNEDNESS
  The condition of being horned.
• DIVESTMENT
  The act of divesting.
• SHOUTER
  One who shouts.
• SOUTER
  A shoemaker; a cobbler. Chaucer. There is no work better than another to please God: . . . to wash dishes, to be a souter, or an apostle, -- all is one. Tyndale.
• FLOUTER
  One who flouts; a mocker.
• PLOUTER
  To wade or move about with splashing; to dabble; also, to potter; trifle; idle. I did not want to plowter about any more. Kipling.
• TOUTER
  One who seeks customers, as for an inn, a public conveyance, shops, and the like: hence, an obtrusive candidate for office. The prey of ring droppers, . . . duffers, touters, or any of those bloodless sharpers who are, perhaps, better known to the
• STAG-HORNED
  Having the mandibles large and palmate, or branched somewhat like the antlers of a stag; -- said of certain beetles.
• SOUTERLY
  Of or pertaining to a cobbler or cobblers; like a cobbler; hence, vulgar; low.
• BROAD-HORNED
  Having horns spreading widely.
• REINVESTMENT
  The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.
• POUTER
  A variety of the domestic pigeon remarkable for the extent to which it is able to dilate its throat and breast. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, pouts. 2. Etym:
• UNDER-GARMENT
  A garment worn below another.
• CLOUTERLY
  Clumsy; awkward. Rough-hewn, cloutery verses. E. Phillips.
• ACCOUTER; ACCOUTRE
  To furnish with dress, or equipments, esp. those for military service; to equip; to attire; to array. Bot accoutered like young men. Shak. For this, in rags accoutered are they seen. Dryden. Accoutered with his burden and his staff. Wordsworth.