2. To put on. [Obs.]

Can not find one this girdle to invest.

Spenser.

3. 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.

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