investiture as a noun: - 1
- 2
investiture
noun
1 investiture
The ceremony of installing a new monarch.
synonyms: coronation, enthronement, enthronisation, enthronization.
Roget 755:
commission,
delegation;
consignment,
assignment;
procuration†;
deputation,
legation,
mission,
embassy;
agency,
agentship†;
power of attorney;
clerkship;
surrogacy.
errand,
charge,
brevet,
diploma,
exequatur [Lat.],
permit
etc.
(permission)
760.
appointment,
nomination,
designation,
return;
charter;
ordination;
installation,
inauguration,
investiture,
swearing-in;
accession,
coronation,
enthronement.
vicegerency;
regency,
regentship.
viceroy
etc.
745;
consignee
etc.
758;
deputy
etc.
759.
[person who receives a commission]
agent,
delegate,
consignee
etc.
758.
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Dutch: troonbestijging, kroning
Polish: koronacja
2 investiture
The ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank.
synonym: investment.
Roget 784:
giving
etc.
v.;
bestowal,
bestowment†,
donation;
presentation,
presentment;
accordance;
concession;
delivery,
consignment,
dispensation,
communication,
endowment;
investment,
investiture;
award.
almsgiving†,
charity,
liberality,
generosity.
[Thing given]
gift,
donation,
present,
cadeau†;
fairing;
free gift,
boon,
favor,
benefaction,
grant,
offering,
oblation,
sacrifice,
immolation;
lagniappe [U.S.],
pilon [U.S.].
grace,
act of grace,
bonus.
allowance,
contribution,
subscription,
subsidy,
tribute,
subvention.
bequest,
legacy,
devise,
will,
dotation†,
dot,
appanage;
voluntary settlement,
voluntary conveyance
etc.
783;
amortization.
alms,
largess,
bounty,
dole,
sportule†,
donative†,
help,
oblation,
offertory,
honorarium,
gratuity,
Peter pence,
sportula†,
Christmas box,
Easter offering,
vail†,
douceur [Fr.],
drink money,
pourboire,
trinkgeld [G.],
bakshish†;
fee
etc.
(recompense)
973;
consideration.
bribe,
bait,
ground bait;
peace offering,
handsel;
boodle [Slang],
graft,
grease [Slang];
blat [Rus.].
giver,
grantor
etc.
v.;
donor,
feoffer†,
settlor.
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Dutch: ep
Moby thesaurus: accedence, acceptance, accession, accommodation, accordance, admission, admittance, anchorage, apostolic orders, apparel, appointment, array, attire, award, awarding, baptism, bedizenment, bestowal, bestowment, calling, canonization, clothes, clothing, colonization, communication, concession, conferment, conferral, consecration, contribution, coronation, costume, deliverance, delivery, donation, drapery, dress, dressing, duds, election, endowment, enlistment, enrollment, enthronement, establishment, fashion, fatigues, feathers, fig, fixation, foundation, furnishment, garb, garments, gear, gifting, giving, grant, granting, guise, habiliment, habit, holy orders, immission, impartation, impartment, inaugural, inauguration, induction, initiation, installation, installment, instatement, institution, intromission, investment, liberality, linen, lodgment, major orders, minor orders, mooring, nomination, offer, ordainment, orders, ordination, peopling, placement, plantation, population, presentment, provision, rags, raiment, reading in, robes, settlement, settling, sportswear, style, subscription, supplying, surrender, taking office, threads, togs, toilette, trim, vestment, vesture, vouchsafement, wear, wearing apparel ... show more.
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