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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.
Investitureinvestiture is the ceremony at which someone is formally given a high title or office是指某人正式被授予高階頭銜或職位的典禮。A prince, a university chancellor, a knight, a bishop王子、大學校監、騎士、主教——the room watches while the person receives the signs of the rank在場的人看著這個人接受象徵這個地位的東西：a robe, a chain, a sword, a document長袍、項鍊、劍、文件
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.
It is not the word for your first day in an ordinary job這不是用來說你第一天上普通班的字；that is just starting work那只是開始工作，or at most an inauguration if the post is public and grand如果職位是公開又盛大的，最多叫inauguration。The history inside the word is clothes這個字裡藏的歷史是「衣服」：Latin investire meant to clothe someone拉丁文investire的意思是幫某人穿上衣服，and the ceremony still often dresses the person in the job而這個典禮現在也常常還是會幫這個人穿上代表這份職位的服裝。History students also meet the medieval Investiture Controversy歷史系學生也會遇到中世紀的Investiture Controversy（授職權之爭），a long fight over who — pope or emperor — had the right to give bishops their office那是一場長期的鬥爭，爭的是教宗還是皇帝，才有權任命主教的職位
Formal, ceremonial, a little antique. You read it more than you say it.
Formal, ceremonial, a little antique正式、隆重，帶點古味。You read it more than you say it你比較常讀到這個字，而不是說出來
組成From Middle French investiture, from Medieval Latin investītūra, from investīre (“to clothe”) — putting the clothes of office on someone.
原始詞典資料4 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，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/
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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.
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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.
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That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.
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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.
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。