INVESTITURE

Investiture

Investiture, from the Latin is a term for the formal installation of an incumbent as the insignia can include the formal dress and adornment which the etymology refers to, but it extends to other regalia and to a throne or other seat of office. It is used both as a generic term, and for more specific cases as coronation and enthronement.

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investiture

Noun

  1. The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
  2. That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.


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