Investiture
Investiture (?; 135) , noun
[Late Latin investitura: compare French investiture.]
1.
The act or ceremony of investing, or the state 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.
2.
(Feudal Law) Livery of seizin.
The grant of land or a feud was perfected by the ceremony of corporal investiture, or open delivery of possession.
3.
That with which anyone is invested or clothed; investment; clothing; covering.
While we yet have on
Our gross investiture of mortal weeds.