envesture (c.1334)
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envesture (c.1334)

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  FEW:  investire *4,795b Gdf:  envesture 3,315a GdfC: ∅ TL: envestëure 3,710 DEAF:  envestir (envesteüre)  DMF: ∅ TLF: ∅ OED:  investure n.  MED: ∅ DMLBS:  investura 1467b
 

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1lawinvestiture, formal installation to an office, title, right, etc.: 
( c.1334; MS: s.xivm )  ne suffrist le roi avoir les envestures des eglises  298.15
( MS: s.xivm ) la meyn ke redement clos tint a force ovrirent ke l'envesture de l'ersevesché par la croce a ly tendue de la mein le roy pleynement puist receyvre  307
envestir  investiture  vesture 
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