Emily Dickinson Lexicon

IN-VERT'ING, ppr.

Turning in a contrary direction; changing the order.

IN-VEST', v.t. [Fr. investir; L. investio; in and vestio, to clothe. See Vest.]

1. To clothe; to dress; to put garments on; to array; usually and most correctly followed by with, before the thing put on; as, to invest one with a mantle or robe. In this sense, it is used chiefly in poetry and elevated prose, not in colloquial discourse.
2. To clothe with office or authority; to place in possession of an office, rank or dignity; as, to invest a person with a civil office, or with an ecclesiastical dignity.
3. To adorn; to grace; as, to invest with honor. Shak.
4. To clothe; to surround; as, to be invested with light, splendor or glory.
5. To confer; to give. [Little used.] Bacon.
6. To inclose; to surround; to block up, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.
7. To clothe money in something permanent or less fleeting; as, to invest money in funded or bank stock; to invest it in lands or goods. In this application, it is always followed by in.

IN-VEST'ED, pp.

Clothed; dressed; adorned; inclosed.

IN-VEST'IENT, a.

Covering; clothing. Woodward.

IN-VEST'I-GA-BLE, a. [from investigate.]

That may be investigated or searched out; discoverable by rational search or disquisition. The causes or reasons of things are sometimes investigable.

IN-VEST'I-GATE, v.t. [L. investigo; in and vestigo, to follow a track, to search; vestigium, a track or footstep.]

To search into; to inquire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful disquisition; as, to investigate the powers and forces of nature; to investigate the causes of natural phenomena; to investigate the principles of moral duty; to investigate the conduct of an agent or the motives of a prince.

IN-VEST'I-GA-TED, pp.

Searched into; examined with care.

IN-VEST'I-GA-TING, ppr.

Searching into; inquiring into with care.

IN-VEST-I-GA'TION, n. [Fr. from L. investigatio.]

The action or process of searching minutely for truth, facts or principles; a careful inquiry to find out what is unknown, either in the physical or moral world, and either by observation and experiment, or by argument and discussion. Thus we speak of the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist and the divine.

IN-VEST'I-GA-TIVE, a.

Curious and deliberate in researches.

IN-VEST'I-GA-TOR, n.

One who searches diligently into a subject.

IN-VEST'ING, ppr.

Clothing; dressing; adorning; inclosing.

IN-VEST'I-TURE, n. [Fr. See Invest.]

1. The action of giving possession, or livery of seizin. The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony of corporal investiture; or open delivery of possession. Blackstone. It was customary for princes to make investiture of ecclesiastical benefices. Encyc.
2. The right of giving possession of any manor, office or benefice. He had refused to yield to the pope the investiture of bishops. Ralegh.

IN-VEST'IVE, a.

Clothing; encircling.

IN-VEST'MENT, n.

1. The action of investing.
2. Clothes; dress; garment; habit. Shak. [We now use Vestment.]
3. The act of surrounding, blocking up or besieging by an armed force. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort, within six days after its investment. Marshall.
4. The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; literally, the clothing of money with something. Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. Hamilton.

IN-VET'ER-A-CY, n. [L. inveteratio. See Inveterate.]

Long continuance, or the firmness or deep rooted obstinacy of any quality or state acquired by time; as, the inveteracy of custom and habit; usually or always applied in a bad sense; as, the inveteracy of prejudice, of error, or of any evil habit.

IN-VET'ER-ATE, a. [L. inveteratus, invetero; in and vetero, from vetus, old.]

1. Old; long established. It is an inveterate and received opinion. [Obs.] Bacon.
2. Deep rooted; firmly established by long continuance; obstinate; used of evils; as, an inveterate disease; an inveterate abuse; an inveterate course of sin.
3. Having fixed habits by long continuance; used of persons; as, an inveterate sinner.
4. Violent; deep rooted; obstinate; as, inveterate enmity or malice.

IN-VET'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. invetero, to grow old.]

To fix and settle by long continuance. [Obsolete or little used.] Bacon.

IN-VET'ER-ATE-LY, adv.

With obstinacy; violently.

IN-VET'ER-ATE-NESS, n.

Obstinacy confirmed by time; inveteracy; as, the inveterateness of a mischief. Locke.

IN-VET-ER-A'TION, n.

The act of hardening or confirming by long continuance.

IN-VID'I-OUS, a. [L. invidiosus, from invideo, to envy; in and video, to see. Invideo signifies properly, to look against.]

1. Envious; malignant. Evelyn.
2. Likely to incur ill will or hatred, or to provoke envy; hateful. [This is the usual sense.] Agamemnon found it an invidious affair to give the preference to any one of the Grecian heroes. Broome.

IN-VID'I-OUS-LY, adv.

1. Enviously; malignantly.
2. In a manner likely to provoke hatred.

IN-VID'I-OUS-NESS, n.

The quality of provoking envy or hatred.

IN-VIG'I-LANCE, n.

Want of vigilance; neglect of watching.