investiture

Definitions

in- (on) + vest (clothe) + -iture (act, process) = the act of clothing someone into office. While invest drifted toward finance, investiture froze the original ceremony: the formal robing of a bishop, duke, or prince into their rank.

Why It Means This

This is invest with its medieval origins kept intact. The famous medieval 'Investiture Controversy' was literally a fight over who had the right to robe bishops into office — pope or king. The word still means exactly that ceremony, untouched by the financial sense its sibling invest took on.

Common Collocations

• 1.investiture ceremony授职典礼
• 2.formal investiture正式授职
• 3.royal investiture皇家授爵仪式

Example Sentences

• 1.

  The prince's investiture was held in the ancient castle.

• 2.

  Thousands gathered to watch the king's formal investiture.