喜樂美語
  1. 1授職典禮、授銜儀式（偏冊封、授衣冠的儀式，不是普通上班的第一天）

    Investiture is the ceremony at which someone is formally given a high title or office. A prince, a university chancellor, a knight, a bishop — the room watches while the person receives the signs of the rank: a robe, a chain, a sword, a document. It is not the word for your first day in an ordinary job; that is just starting work, or at most an inauguration if the post is public and grand. The history inside the word is clothes: Latin investire meant to clothe someone, and the ceremony still often dresses the person in the job. History students also meet the medieval Investiture Controversy, a long fight over who — pope or emperor — had the right to give bishops their office. Formal, ceremonial, a little antique. You read it more than you say it.

組成From Middle French investiture, from Medieval Latin investītūra, from investīre (“to clothe”) — putting the clothes of office on someone.

同家族的字

  • vestthe garment; same clothing root
  • vestmentchurch clothes — the same ‘dressing’ idea
  • investin the older sense ‘to clothe someone in a title’; the money sense came later from the same verb
  • divestto strip someone of clothes, a title, or assets — the opposite motion

原始詞典資料4 筆記錄

以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，摘錄並精簡格式，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。

investiturenoun/ɪnˈvɛstɪt͡ʃə/

  • 1

    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 indication of his appropriate preparation for the ceremonies in which he was about to engage, prevailed in all the ancient initiations.
  • 2

    historicalThe 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 highly offended with him (as he had just cause) that he presently banished him the Realm, and seised his Temporalties.
    • […] it was apparent by the latter part of 1101 that only a sudden change of heart by Paschal would prevent a controversy over lay investiture in England similar to the dispute which had racked Germany for a quarter of a century.
  • 3

    That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.

  • 4

    governmentpoliticsThe 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.

摘錄自 英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary，已精簡格式；依 CC BY-SA 4.0 授權使用，改動後的內容同樣以此授權提供。