investient

English

Etymology

From Latin investiens, present participle of investire.

Adjective

investient (comparative more investient, superlative most investient)

  1. Serving to cover or clothe.
    • 1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], OCLC 1179517876:
      That therefore the Shells served as Plasms or Moulds to this Sand ; which , when consolidated , and afterwards in tract of Time by this means freed from its investient Shell , is of the same Shape and Size as is the Cavity of the Shell

References

investient in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Latin

Verb

investient

  1. third-person plural future active indicative of investiō
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