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Badge or sign of honor, rank, or official station. In the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the Senate. Shak.

e lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights. It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. Walpole.

One who holds an office; a person lawfully invested with an office, whether civil, military, or ecclesiastical; as, a church officer; a police officer; a staff officer. "I am an officer of state." Shak.

an office or public trust; as, official duties, or routine. That, in the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the senate. Shak.

the proper officer; by virtue of the proper authority; in pursuance of the special powers vested in an officer or office; as, accounts or reports officially vertified or rendered; letters officially communicated; persons officially notified.

One invested with royal privileges and rights within his domains; a count palatine. See Count palatine, under 4th Count.

Among the North American Indians, meat cut in thin slices, divested of fat, and dried in the sun. Then on pemican they feasted. Longfellow.

An officer in some dioceses since A. D. 1215, vested with power from the bishop to absolve in cases reserved to him.

A person invested with full power to transact any business; especially, an ambassador or envoy to a foreign court, with full power to negotiate a treaty, or to transact other business.

The agent exercising an ability to act; an individual invested with authority; an institution, or government, which exercises control; as, the great powers of Europe; hence, often, a superhuman agent; a spirit; a divinity. "The powers of darkness." Milton. And the powers of the heavens shall be shaken. Matt. xxiv. 29.…

A prince; one invested with sovereignty. "Next upstood Nisroch, of principalities the prime." Milton.

Not invested with, or engaged in, public office or employment; as, a private citizen; private life. Shak. A private person may arrest a felon. Blackstone.

The state of one not invested with public office.

Invested with a privilege; enjoying a peculiar right, advantage, or immunity. Privileged communication. (Law) (a) A communication which can not be disclosed without the consent of the party making it, -- such as those made by a client to his legal adviser, or by persons to their religious or medical advisers. (b) A com…

A corporation consisting of a person or body of persons invested with some of the qualities of an artificial person, though not expressly incorporated, esp. the official of certain municipal divisions such as counties, schools districts, and the towns of some States of the United States, certain church officials, as a…

Especially, one invested with vicarious authority; one who governs a kingdom in the minority, absence, or disability of the sovereign.

An agent, deputy, or substitute, who supplies the place of another, or others, being invested with his or their authority.

Vested with large powers; independent.

Hence, one of a certain number of equal portions into which any property or invested capital is divided; as, a ship owned in ten shares.

Invested by a sheath, or cylindrical membranaceous tube, which is the base of the leaf, as the stalk or culm in grasses; vaginate.