INVEST

Definitions

1. 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. 2. To put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser.
3. 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. Shak.
4. 4. To surround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.
5. 5. To confer; to give. [R.] It investeth a right of government. Bacon.
6. 6. To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.
7. 7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock.