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verb

Invest v. t. (past & past part. invested; pres. part. investing)

1.

To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

2.

To put on. (Obs.) "Can not find one this girdle to invest."

3.

To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. "I do invest you jointly with my power."

4.

To surround, accompany, or attend. "Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt."

5.

To confer; to give. (R.) "It investeth a right of government."

6.

(Mil.) To inclose; to surround or hem in with troops, so as to intercept reinforcements of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

7.

To lay out (money or capital) in business with the view of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.

8.

Hence: To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that expended, or to achieve a useful pupose; as, to invest a lot of time in teaching one's children.

Invest v. i. To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; usually followed by in.

noun

investing n. The act or process of expending resources, especially money, to achieve rewards.

Synonyms: investment.

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Etymology of 'Investing'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Investing" Quotes from Famous Books

... ushered in the morning on which the great and all-absorbing event was to take place. A clear sky, a sea so calm that scarce a ripple was to be seen, every sail spread to its utmost capacity, and the mellow tints of the rising sun playing over and investing them with a majesty of outline at once grand and imposing. And yet the massive hull scarce moved, so gentle was the breeze that fanned through ...

— The Life and Adventures of Maj. Roger Sherman Potter • "Pheleg Van Trusedale"

... a complete system of allusions similar to the allegories of our own classics but superior in that they never degenerate into frozen symbols, but on the contrary keep in close touch with nature, investing her with a vibrant life, in which human consciousness vanishes making way for the dawning consciousness ...

— Chinese Painters - A Critical Study • Raphael Petrucci

... had gone into Rome and planted himself in the front of the piazza before the buildings of the Holy Office, and lifted up his testimony there. So Christ, knowing that this council has been held, that this decree stands, goes back, investing of set purpose His return with all the publicity that He can bring to bear upon it. For this once He seems to determine that He will 'cause His voice to be heard in the streets'; He makes as much of a demonstration as the circumstances will allow, and so acts in a manner opposite ...

— Expositions of Holy Scripture - St. Mark • Alexander Maclaren

... state of society was the beau-ideal. And from this philosophical origin he traced society in the historical formation of an actual polity, describing how the social contract, while subordinating individual liberty to the collective will of a society, recompensed men by investing them ...

— History of Free Thought in Reference to The Christian Religion • Adam Storey Farrar

... to one's self. We share this world, none the less, for the hour, with Mr. Verver; the very fact of his striking, as he would have said, for solitude, the fact of his quiet flight, almost on tiptoe, through tortuous corridors, investing him with an interest that makes our attention—tender indeed almost to compassion—qualify his achieved isolation. For it may immediately be mentioned that this amiable man bethought himself of his personal ...

— The Golden Bowl • Henry James

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