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dress; to array; -- opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

Covering; clothing. [R.] Woodward.

Capable or susceptible of being investigated; admitting research. Hooker.

quire and examine into with care and accuracy; to find out by careful inquisition; as, to investigate the causes of natural phenomena.

The act of investigating; the process of inquiring into or following up; research; study; inquiry, esp. patient or thorough inquiry or examination; as, the investigations of the philosopher and the mathematician; the investigations of the judge, the moralist.

Given to investigation; inquisitive; curious; searching.

One who searches diligently into a subject.

The act or ceremony of investing, or the of being invested, as with an office; a giving possession; also, the right of so investing. He had refused to yield up to the pope the investiture of bishops. Sir W. Raleigh.

Investing. [R.] Mir. for Mag.

The act of investing, or the state of being invested.

One who invests.

Investiture; investment. [Obs.] Bp. Burnet.

The act of depriving of investiture. [Obs.] Ogilvie.

To invest again or anew.

To investigate again. -- Re`in*ves`ti*ga"tion (-g, n.

The act of investing anew; a second or repeated investment.

An outer vestment or garment. [R.] Bp. Horne.

To put or bring into credit; to invest with credit or authority; to sanction. His censure will . . . accredit his praises. Cowper. These reasons . . . which accredit and fortify mine opinion. Shelton.

Of or pertaining to aërometry; as, aërometric investigations.

The science, doctrine, or demonstration of causes; esp., the investigation of the causes of any disease; the science of the origin and development of things.