investiture

noun investitures

1. countable, uncountable The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right. The rite of investiture, called, in the colloquially technical language of the order, the ceremony of clothing, brings us at once to the consideration of that well-known symbol of Freemasonry, the LAMB-SKIN APRON. This rite of investiture, or the placing upon the aspirant some garment, as an indicat

   Similar: investment

2. countable, historical, specifically, uncountable The formal installation or, generally, the appointment of a bishop, or (uncountable) bishops in general. Raynelmus the 30. Bishop of Hereford receiving his investiture from King Henry the first, by the delivery of a Ring and Crosier, according to the Law and Custom of that Age, and afterwards resigning them into the Kings hands again to pleasure Anselme, against the Kings Prerogative, the King was so h
3. countable, uncountable That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.
4. Spanish, countable, uncountable The parliamentary vote required to inaugurate the Prime Minister of Spain. The Spanish constitution dictates that the king is obliged to dissolve the legislative body two months after the first failed investiture vote.