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Discussion by dialogue as a method of scientific investigation.

A form of government in which the supreme power is vested in two persons.

One invested with absolute authority; especially, a magistrate created in times of exigence and distress, and invested with unlimited power. Invested with the authority of a dictator, nay, of a pope, over our language. Macaulay.

The act of differentiating. Further investigation of the Sanskrit may lead to differentiation of the meaning of such of these roots as are real roots. J. Peile.

To invest with dignity or honor; to make illustrious; to give distinction to; to exalt in rank; to honor. Your worth will dignity our feast. B. Jonson.

To invest with a title o [R.] Wood.

The act of divesting of armature. [R.]

To divest of a branch or branches; to tear off. Shak.

To divest of a clout. [R.]

variance; discordance; dissimilarity; contrariety. There hath been ever a discrepance of vesture of youth and age, men and women. Sir T. Elyot. There is no real discrepancy between these two genealogies. G. S. Faber.

reason upon by presenting favorable and adverse considerations; to debate; to sift; to investigate; to ventilate. "We sat and . . . discussed the farm . . . and the price of grain." Tennyson. "To discuss questions of taste." Macaulay.

To divest or deprive of deity or of a deific rank or condition. Feltham.

Divested of a body; ceased to be corporal; incorporeal. The disembodied spirits of the dead. Bryant.

To divest of the or corporeal existence. Devils embodied and disembodied. Sir W. Scott.

To deprive of power; to divest of strength. H. Bushnell.

anything is furnished (furniture, equipments, etc.); to strip; to render destitute; to divest. I am a thing obscure, disfurnished of All merit, that can raise me higher. Massinger.

To divest of garniture; to disfurnish; to dismantle. Bp. Hall.

To deprive of corporate powers, rights, or privileges; to divest of the condition of a corporate body.

To divest of flame or ardor. Chapman.

To divest of interest or interested motives. [Obs.] Feltham.