invest

Definitions

1. 1.To put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser.
2. 2.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.
3. 3.To surround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne.
4. 4.To confer; to give. [R.] It investeth a right of government. Bacon.
5. 5.(Mil.) 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.
6. 6.To lay out (money or capital) in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock.
7. 7.To make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in.

Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).

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Definition-first questions whose answer is invest.

• What is to put on. [Obs.] Can not find one this girdle to invest. Spenser called?
• What is to surround, accompany, or attend. Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. Hawthorne called?
• What is to confer; to give. [R.] It investeth a right of government. Bacon called?
• What is 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 called?
• What is to lay out (money or capital) in business with the as, to invest money in bank stock called?
• What is to make an investment; as, to invest in stocks; -- usually followed by in called?