investiture Meaning, Definition & Usage

noun the ceremony of installing a new monarch
enthronization; enthronement; coronation; enthronisation.
noun the ceremonial act of clothing someone in the insignia of an office; the formal promotion of a person to an office or rank
investment.

LL. investitura: cf. F. investiture.

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing.
He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.
(Feudal Law) Livery of seizin.
The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony o corporal investiture, or open delivery of possession. Blackstone.
That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
While we yet have on Our gross investiture of mortal weeds. Trench.