investient

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adjective

Serving to cover or clothe.

OriginLatin investiens →
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Meanings

adjectiveinvestient (comparative more investient, superlative most investient)

comparative more investient · superlative most investient

  1. Serving to cover or clothe.

    That therefore the Shells served as Plasms or Moulds to this Sand ; which , when consolidated , and afterwards in tract of Time by this means freed from its investient Shell , is of the same Shape and Size as is the Cavity of the Shell

    1695, John Woodward, “(please specify the page)”, in An Essay toward a Natural History of the Earth: And Terrestrial Bodies, Especially Minerals: […], London: […] Ric[hard] Wilkin […], →OCLC

Origin

  1. Latininvestiens
  2. Englishinvestient

From Latin investiens, present participle of investire.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “investient,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/investient.

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