Invest \In*vest"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invested; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Investing.] [L. investire, investitum; pref. in- in +
   vestire to clothe, fr. vestis clothing: cf. F. investir. See
   Vest.]
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   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.
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   2. To put on. [Obs.]
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            Can not find one this girdle to invest. --Spenser.
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   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.
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            I do invest you jointly with my power. --Shak.
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   4. To surround, accompany, or attend.
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            Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the
            guilt.                                --Hawthorne.
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   5. To confer; to give. [R.]
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            It investeth a right of government.   --Bacon.
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   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.
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   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.
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   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.
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	59 Moby Thesaurus words for "invested":
   accoutered, appareled, armed, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched,
   capped, catered, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed,
   decked, dight, disguised, dotal, dower, dowered, dowry, dressed,
   endowed, endued, equipped, fitted, fitted out, furnished, garbed,
   garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, heeled, hooded, liveried,
   mantled, outfitted, pantalooned, pensionary, prepared, provided,
   purveyed, raimented, rigged, rigged out, robed, shod, shoed,
   stipendiary, subsidiary, supplied, tired, togged, tricked out,
   trousered, vested, vestmented