From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Invest \In*vest"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Invested}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Investing}.] [L. investire, investitum; pref. in- in + vestire to clothe, fr. vestis clothing: cf. F. investir. See {Vest}.]
1. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; -- opposed to {divest}. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.
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.
I do invest you jointly with my power. --Shak.
4. To surround, accompany, or attend.
Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt. --Hawthorne.
It investeth a right of government. --Bacon.
6. (Mil.) To inclose; to surround or hem in with troops, so as to intercept reinforcements of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.
7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the view of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.
8. Hence: To expend (time, money, or other resources) with a view to obtaining some benefit of value in excess of that expended, or to achieve a useful pupose; as, to invest a lot of time in teaching one's children. [PJC]
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: officially endowed with authority or power; "by the Constitution...the president is invested with certain...powers"- John Marshall [syn: {invested with}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
59 Moby Thesaurus words for "invested": accoutered, appareled, armed, arrayed, attired, bedecked, breeched, capped, catered, chausse, clad, cloaked, clothed, coifed, costumed, decked, dight, disguised, dotal, dower, dowered, dowry, dressed, endowed, endued, equipped, fitted, fitted out, furnished, garbed, garmented, gowned, habilimented, habited, heeled, hooded, liveried, mantled, outfitted, pantalooned, pensionary, prepared, provided, purveyed, raimented, rigged, rigged out, robed, shod, shoed, stipendiary, subsidiary, supplied, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vested, vestmented
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