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within circumstances or conditions of any kind conceived of as limiting, confining, or investing, either wholly or in part. In its different applications, it approaches some of the meanings of, and sometimes is interchangeable with, within, into, on, at, of, and among. It is used: --

In a manner that forbids alienation; as, rights inalienably vested.

Invested with office; inaugurated. Drayton.

The act of inuagurating, or inducting into office with solemnity; investiture by appropriate ceremonies. At his regal inauguration, his old father resigned the kingdom to him. Sir T. Browne.

To cover or invest with flesh. [R.] Wiseman.

Invested with flesh; embodied in a human nature and form; united with, or having, a human body. Here shalt thou sit incarnate. Milton. He represents the emperor and his wife as two devils incarnate, sent into the world for the destruction of mankind. Jortin.

Search; inquiry; investigation. [Obs.]

Searching; exploring; investigating. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

A searcher; an explorer; an investigator. [Obs.] Searched into by such skillful indagators of nature. Boyle.

To invest with the privileges of a denizen; to naturalize. [R.] Words indenizened, and commonly used as English. B. Jonson.

To investigate the condition or power of, as of steam engine, by means of an indicator.

The mark as an individual, or to distinguish from others by peculiar properties; to invest with individuality. The peculiarities which individualize and distinguish the humor of Addison. N. Drake.

To clothe; to invest; hence, to endow; to furnish; to supply with moral or mental qualities. Indu'd with robes of various hue she flies. Dryden. Indued with intellectual sense and souls. Shak.

The act of induing, or state of being indued; investment; endowment. W. Montagu.

News, advice, or knowledge, communicated by others or obtained by personal study and investigation; intelligence; knowledge derived from reading, observation, or instruction. Larger opportunities of information. Rogers. He should get some information in the subject he intends to handle. Swift.

athering or collecting anything; especially, the gathering of the fruits of the earth; harvest. Thou shalt keep . . . the feast of ingathering. Ex. xxii. 16.

Ingathering; harvesting. [Obs.] Holland.

One who inquires or examines; questioner; investigator. Locke. Expert inquirers after truth. Cowper.

Given to inquiry; disposed to investigate causes; curious; as, an inquiring mind.

The act of inquiring; inquiry; search; examination; inspection; investigation. As I could learn through earnest inquisition. Latimer. Let not search and inquisition quail To bring again these foolish runaways. Shak.