investingn.

Brit.

/ɪnˈvɛstɪŋ/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈvɛstɪŋ/

Forms: see invest v. and -ing suffix¹.

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: invest v., -ing suffix¹.

Etymology: < invest v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier investiture n., investure n.With sense 2 compare slightly earlier investment n. 5. With sense 3a compare earlier investment n. II.

a. The action of installing someone in an office, rank, honour, etc.; the action of ceremonially dressing someone in or presenting someone with official robes, attire, or insignia, esp. as part of a formal installation or induction. Also: a formal installation or induction ceremony.In early use also: the right or power to make someone a bishop or prelate; cf. investiture n. 1a.

ΘΚΠ

society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > formal or ceremonial appointment

stalling1387

vestiture1387

stallation1447

inductiona1464

investurea1513

investiture1549

investing1551

inauguration1569

instalment1589

investion1590

installation1606

vesture1607

installing1610

investment1612

investry1642

investation1657

1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. ii. f. cxvij^v They first toke from kynges the inuestynge of prelates, or the power of admyttynge them to spirytuall offyces.

1591 R. W. Martine Mar-Sixtus sig. F3^v The sundry inrodes and incursions, wherewith since his first inuesting with the Crowne, ye haue forreyed out against him.

a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) viii. 155 In case it doth happen, that without right of bloud a man in such wise be possessed, all these new elections and investings are utterly void.

1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 20 The king parts with his investing of Bishops.

1706 No-church Establish'd 38 This Admittance possibly added something to the Solemnity of Saul's Investing.

1766 A. Bower Hist. Popes VI. 17 The Ceremony of investing was not performed by the Crosier and the Ring, that were looked upon as sacred, but by the Scepter, a Badge of Temporal, and not of Spiritual Power.

1831 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 149/1 The investing with the Supertunica was omitted at the King's request.

1857 B. Thorpe tr. J. M. Lappenberg Hist. Eng. under Norman Kings 363 The former [sc. Henry, the king's nephew] was present also at Easter, at the investing of bishop Robert with the see of Bath.

1958 N. F. Cantor Church, Kingship, & Lay Investiture in Eng., 1089–1135 iii. 128 The investing of ecclesiastics with the symbols of their offices by laymen had been condemned on pain of excommunication.

1961 Living Church 26 Feb. 11/1 The investing of 14 persons as associate commanders and associate officers of the American Society of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem.

2004 K. F. Drew Magna Carta i. 4 In 1077 Pope Gregory VII issued his bull Dictatus prohibiting..the naming and investing of church leaders by the secular ruler.

b. The endowment of someone or something with an attribute, power, etc.; an instance of this.

ΚΠ

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. viii. 62 The next impression, which I intend shortly to publish with much inlargement to the more compleat investing of the Arte, with due and appropriate Ornaments.

1675 P. Barbon Good Things to Come i. iii. 9 An investing of the Lord Christ with power.

1763 G. Ridley Life Dr. N. Ridley ii. 129 The Germans would not allow the King's Supremacy, lest it should infer an investing of the like authority in the Emperour.

?c1880 W. W. Collins Law & God 3 Nature's laws..have no existence save in the minds of those believing in them, whilst the investing of them with intelligence..is the result of conceptions entirely out of accord with scientific thought and research.

a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 885 ‘Magic’..implies a naïve and uncritical investing of natural objects and forces with spirits.

1981 Spectator 19 Sept. 13/3 The investing of power in the hands of the kind of people who always come to the top of an Establishment.

2007 Russ. Rev. 66 95 The investing of a phenomenon..with unwarranted reverence and even awe.

2. Military. The surrounding and blockading of a town, stronghold, etc., by a hostile force. Now chiefly historical.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun]

sieginga1382

besieging1382

siegec1385

pursuitc1425

obsidionc1429

assizec1430

assieginga1450

sitting down1495

obsession1548

besiege1552

besiegement1564

assiegement1577

investion1590

investing1597

beleaguering1603

blocking1637

investiture1649

blockade1659

begirting1660

investment1702

beleaguerment1826

1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 45 The sad inuesting of so many Townes, Scor'd on my brest in honourable wounds.

1648 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Late Warres ii. 62 Bannier..used such diligence in the investing of Vansleber, as the Imperialists that were therein unexpectedly surprised..came to agreement.

1711 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 167 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576–I) XLII. 1 The Prince..did not judge the investing of Lymerick..to hasten the surrender of the town.

1779 Morning Chron. 19 Mar. A siege of two months and ten days from the first investing of the place.

1864 N.Y. Times 25 Dec. 2/1 He has come to attempt the investing of a city on his own account, strong in the belief that he will capture it.

1879 Amer. Jrnl. Numismatics 14 43 With the investing of Canada by Wolfe and Boscawen, the issue of these jetons ceased.

1948 Classical Jrnl. 43 184/2 The siege of Aegina (458–7) required regular hoplites, of course; but the original landing and investing of the town seems to have been made by marines.

1985 J. Rothschild tr. G. Kepel Prophet & Pharaoh v. 164 A siege of the police station [in Minya]..was a kind of dress rehearsal for the investing of the city of Asyut for four days by the Jihad group.

2003 H. E. J. Cowdrey Lanfranc xiii. 190 He did not lead or accompany armies in the field nor did he take a direct part in the defence or investing of castles.

a. The use of money or capital to purchase an asset or assets (such as property, stocks, bonds, etc.) in the expectation of earning income or profit over time.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment

improvement1549

investiture1757

investing1766

investment1774

sinking1890

1766 Memorial Sir J. Sinclair of Stevenson App. iv. 26 (heading) Letters between the Earl of Caithness and Lord Woodhall, concerning the investing of his money in the purchase of lands.

1832 J. Miller Let. to Earl Grey on Church Prop. & Reform (ed. 2) 80 The investing of so large a capital would very considerably raise the price of Stocks.

1890 Independent 8 May 8/2 It was in the dealing with and the investing of those large amounts that the fortune was made.

1950 Accounting Rev. 25 89 The reader is unable to judge the ability of management insofar as the investing of funds is concerned.

2017 A. M. Froide Silent Partners vii. 187 Hester Pinney focused much of her investing in South Sea stock.

b. The devotion of money, time, energy, or other resources to a purchase, project, activity, etc., in the expectation that over time it will prove worthwhile, useful, or beneficial.

ΚΠ

1922 Living Church 22 Apr. 830/2 The investing of millions in colleges and seminaries [by the Roman Catholic Church]..will yield their harvest.

1979 C. T. Hill et al. in G. Levinger & O. C. Moles Divorce & Separation iv. 81 The investing of time and energy..commit one to remain in a relationship even if it turns out to be a painful one.

2010 T. Paterson Deeper, Richer, Fuller xii. 217 The Lord does, however, call and require of you an outpouring of your life in service so that, by the investing of your life substance (talent, gifts, energy, time, and strength), you are ‘giving’ your life for His purposes on this earth.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

investingadj.

Brit.

/ɪnˈvɛstɪŋ/, U.S.

/ᵻnˈvɛstɪŋ/

Forms: see invest v. and -ing suffix².

Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: invest v., -ing suffix².

Etymology: < invest v. + -ing suffix².

1. That covers, envelops, or surrounds something; enveloping.Chiefly used in anatomy, geology, and other scientific contexts.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > outer covering

thick-skinned1545

investing1615

vaginal1653

sheathed1664

cortical1677

vaginated1770

vaginate1777

tegumental1822

tegumentary1828

calycine1872

walled1875

tunicary1900

the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > enfolding or enveloping

folden1435

folded1570

involving1611

investing1615

circumvolving1638

obsident1644

circumvolved1668

enfolding1669

investient1695

shrining1826

enveloping1828

enwrapping1850

scarfing1897

1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια ii. v. 70 The first contayning or inuesting part, is the Cuticle, which the Greekes call Epidermis.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiv. 139 Materialls..call'd by the name of Salamanders wooll; which many too literally apprehending, conceive some investing part, or tegument of the Salamander.

1721 J. Handley Mech. Ess. Animal Oecon. 60 Penetrating the investing Coat of the Mouth.

1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 188 [Green martial Earth] commonly found investing, or incumbent.

1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 509 The investing membranes of the brain.

1863 Chicago Med. Jrnl. Nov. 489 Distant hope is obscured by closely investing clouds.

1928 S. Moore & J. A. Key tr. R. Leriche & A. Policard Normal & Pathol. Physiol. of Bone iv. 71 Detaching itself from the investing cartilage and becoming very friable.

2014 C. P. Karakousis Atlas Operative Procedures Surg. Oncology xii. 75 The investing layer ensheathes the trapezius muscle.

2. Military. Of a hostile force: that surrounds and blockades a town, stronghold, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > besieging or blockading

blockading1735

beleaguering1753

investing1780

besieging1813

leaguering1816

1780 Remembrancer 10 50/2 The town and fortifications..shall be surrendered in their present state, to the Commanders of the investing forces.

1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 44 The arrangement usually made for the reception of the investing corps.

1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 269 They were, however, obliged to abandon the siege by Robert Clive, who subsequently defeated the investing army.

1936 E. A. Falk Togo & Rise of Japanese Sea Power xxii. 441 The investing troops were disembarked a hundred and fifty miles north of Tsingtao.

1979 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 42 11 Provided..that the wells themselves were defended, an investing force would soon run short of water.

2006 S. Conway War, State, & Society Mid-18th-cent. Brit. & Ireland i. 22 Clive then held Arcot against a substantial investing army.

3. That invests money or capital in an asset or assets, such as stocks, bonds, property, etc.

ΚΠ

1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 551/1 I will not say that the writer of the Biggleswade prospectus was as soaring a genius as Bob; but he was quite enough of a Claude to seduce the investing public.

1877 S. E. Platt Building Societies 10 An investing member never knew..what he was entitled to receive if he wanted to withdraw.

1943 Bull. Business Hist. Soc. 17 66 In some cases an investing partner also held a share in the capital but was not entrusted with any managerial duties.

1974 Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost & Managem. Accountants) 74 A company..is an associated company of the investing group or company if..the investing group or company's interest in the associated company is effectively that of a partner.

2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Aug. 10/6 The authorities did nothing to disabuse the investing public of the notion that a rising stock market was a state-backed goal.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	investing
释义	investingn. Brit. /ɪnˈvɛstɪŋ/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvɛstɪŋ/ Forms: see invest v. and -ing suffix¹. Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: invest v., -ing suffix¹. Etymology: < invest v. + -ing suffix¹. Compare earlier investiture n., investure n.With sense 2 compare slightly earlier investment n. 5. With sense 3a compare earlier investment n. II. 1. a. The action of installing someone in an office, rank, honour, etc.; the action of ceremonially dressing someone in or presenting someone with official robes, attire, or insignia, esp. as part of a formal installation or induction. Also: a formal installation or induction ceremony.In early use also: the right or power to make someone a bishop or prelate; cf. investiture n. 1a. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > appointment to office > [noun] > formal or ceremonial appointment stalling1387 vestiture1387 stallation1447 inductiona1464 investurea1513 investiture1549 investing1551 inauguration1569 instalment1589 investion1590 installation1606 vesture1607 installing1610 investment1612 investry1642 investation1657 1551 J. Bale Actes Eng. Votaryes: 2nd Pt. ii. f. cxvij^v They first toke from kynges the inuestynge of prelates, or the power of admyttynge them to spirytuall offyces. 1591 R. W. Martine Mar-Sixtus sig. F3^v The sundry inrodes and incursions, wherewith since his first inuesting with the Crowne, ye haue forreyed out against him. a1600 R. Hooker Of Lawes Eccl. Politie (1648) viii. 155 In case it doth happen, that without right of bloud a man in such wise be possessed, all these new elections and investings are utterly void. 1655 T. Fuller Church-hist. Brit. iii. 20 The king parts with his investing of Bishops. 1706 No-church Establish'd 38 This Admittance possibly added something to the Solemnity of Saul's Investing. 1766 A. Bower Hist. Popes VI. 17 The Ceremony of investing was not performed by the Crosier and the Ring, that were looked upon as sacred, but by the Scepter, a Badge of Temporal, and not of Spiritual Power. 1831 La Belle Assemblée Oct. 149/1 The investing with the Supertunica was omitted at the King's request. 1857 B. Thorpe tr. J. M. Lappenberg Hist. Eng. under Norman Kings 363 The former [sc. Henry, the king's nephew] was present also at Easter, at the investing of bishop Robert with the see of Bath. 1958 N. F. Cantor Church, Kingship, & Lay Investiture in Eng., 1089–1135 iii. 128 The investing of ecclesiastics with the symbols of their offices by laymen had been condemned on pain of excommunication. 1961 Living Church 26 Feb. 11/1 The investing of 14 persons as associate commanders and associate officers of the American Society of the Most Venerable Order of the Hospital of St. John of Jerusalem. 2004 K. F. Drew Magna Carta i. 4 In 1077 Pope Gregory VII issued his bull Dictatus prohibiting..the naming and investing of church leaders by the secular ruler. b. The endowment of someone or something with an attribute, power, etc.; an instance of this. ΚΠ 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia ii. viii. 62 The next impression, which I intend shortly to publish with much inlargement to the more compleat investing of the Arte, with due and appropriate Ornaments. 1675 P. Barbon Good Things to Come i. iii. 9 An investing of the Lord Christ with power. 1763 G. Ridley Life Dr. N. Ridley ii. 129 The Germans would not allow the King's Supremacy, lest it should infer an investing of the like authority in the Emperour. ?c1880 W. W. Collins Law & God 3 Nature's laws..have no existence save in the minds of those believing in them, whilst the investing of them with intelligence..is the result of conceptions entirely out of accord with scientific thought and research. a1933 J. A. Thomson Biol. for Everyman (1934) II. 885 ‘Magic’..implies a naïve and uncritical investing of natural objects and forces with spirits. 1981 Spectator 19 Sept. 13/3 The investing of power in the hands of the kind of people who always come to the top of an Establishment. 2007 Russ. Rev. 66 95 The investing of a phenomenon..with unwarranted reverence and even awe. 2. Military. The surrounding and blockading of a town, stronghold, etc., by a hostile force. Now chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [noun] sieginga1382 besieging1382 siegec1385 pursuitc1425 obsidionc1429 assizec1430 assieginga1450 sitting down1495 obsession1548 besiege1552 besiegement1564 assiegement1577 investion1590 investing1597 beleaguering1603 blocking1637 investiture1649 blockade1659 begirting1660 investment1702 beleaguerment1826 1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 45 The sad inuesting of so many Townes, Scor'd on my brest in honourable wounds. 1648 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Gualdo Priorato Hist. Late Warres ii. 62 Bannier..used such diligence in the investing of Vansleber, as the Imperialists that were therein unexpectedly surprised..came to agreement. 1711 in Hist. MSS Comm.: 10th Rep.: App. Pt. V: MSS Marquis of Ormonde &c. (1885) 167 in Parl. Papers 1884–5 (C. 4576–I) XLII. 1 The Prince..did not judge the investing of Lymerick..to hasten the surrender of the town. 1779 Morning Chron. 19 Mar. A siege of two months and ten days from the first investing of the place. 1864 N.Y. Times 25 Dec. 2/1 He has come to attempt the investing of a city on his own account, strong in the belief that he will capture it. 1879 Amer. Jrnl. Numismatics 14 43 With the investing of Canada by Wolfe and Boscawen, the issue of these jetons ceased. 1948 Classical Jrnl. 43 184/2 The siege of Aegina (458–7) required regular hoplites, of course; but the original landing and investing of the town seems to have been made by marines. 1985 J. Rothschild tr. G. Kepel Prophet & Pharaoh v. 164 A siege of the police station [in Minya]..was a kind of dress rehearsal for the investing of the city of Asyut for four days by the Jihad group. 2003 H. E. J. Cowdrey Lanfranc xiii. 190 He did not lead or accompany armies in the field nor did he take a direct part in the defence or investing of castles. 3. a. The use of money or capital to purchase an asset or assets (such as property, stocks, bonds, etc.) in the expectation of earning income or profit over time. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > financial dealings > types of money-dealing > [noun] > investment improvement1549 investiture1757 investing1766 investment1774 sinking1890 1766 Memorial Sir J. Sinclair of Stevenson App. iv. 26 (heading) Letters between the Earl of Caithness and Lord Woodhall, concerning the investing of his money in the purchase of lands. 1832 J. Miller Let. to Earl Grey on Church Prop. & Reform (ed. 2) 80 The investing of so large a capital would very considerably raise the price of Stocks. 1890 Independent 8 May 8/2 It was in the dealing with and the investing of those large amounts that the fortune was made. 1950 Accounting Rev. 25 89 The reader is unable to judge the ability of management insofar as the investing of funds is concerned. 2017 A. M. Froide Silent Partners vii. 187 Hester Pinney focused much of her investing in South Sea stock. b. The devotion of money, time, energy, or other resources to a purchase, project, activity, etc., in the expectation that over time it will prove worthwhile, useful, or beneficial. ΚΠ 1922 Living Church 22 Apr. 830/2 The investing of millions in colleges and seminaries [by the Roman Catholic Church]..will yield their harvest. 1979 C. T. Hill et al. in G. Levinger & O. C. Moles Divorce & Separation iv. 81 The investing of time and energy..commit one to remain in a relationship even if it turns out to be a painful one. 2010 T. Paterson Deeper, Richer, Fuller xii. 217 The Lord does, however, call and require of you an outpouring of your life in service so that, by the investing of your life substance (talent, gifts, energy, time, and strength), you are ‘giving’ your life for His purposes on this earth. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online June 2022). investingadj. Brit. /ɪnˈvɛstɪŋ/, U.S. /ᵻnˈvɛstɪŋ/ Forms: see invest v. and -ing suffix². Origin: Formed within English, by derivation. Etymons: invest v., -ing suffix². Etymology: < invest v. + -ing suffix². 1. That covers, envelops, or surrounds something; enveloping.Chiefly used in anatomy, geology, and other scientific contexts. ΘΚΠ the world > life > biology > physical aspects or shapes > specific areas or structures > [adjective] > outer covering thick-skinned1545 investing1615 vaginal1653 sheathed1664 cortical1677 vaginated1770 vaginate1777 tegumental1822 tegumentary1828 calycine1872 walled1875 tunicary1900 the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > covering > wrapping > [adjective] > enfolding or enveloping folden1435 folded1570 involving1611 investing1615 circumvolving1638 obsident1644 circumvolved1668 enfolding1669 investient1695 shrining1826 enveloping1828 enwrapping1850 scarfing1897 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια ii. v. 70 The first contayning or inuesting part, is the Cuticle, which the Greekes call Epidermis. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica iii. xiv. 139 Materialls..call'd by the name of Salamanders wooll; which many too literally apprehending, conceive some investing part, or tegument of the Salamander. View more context for this quotation 1721 J. Handley Mech. Ess. Animal Oecon. 60 Penetrating the investing Coat of the Mouth. 1796 R. Kirwan Elements Mineral. (ed. 2) II. 188 [Green martial Earth] commonly found investing, or incumbent. 1800 Med. & Physical Jrnl. 4 509 The investing membranes of the brain. 1863 Chicago Med. Jrnl. Nov. 489 Distant hope is obscured by closely investing clouds. 1928 S. Moore & J. A. Key tr. R. Leriche & A. Policard Normal & Pathol. Physiol. of Bone iv. 71 Detaching itself from the investing cartilage and becoming very friable. 2014 C. P. Karakousis Atlas Operative Procedures Surg. Oncology xii. 75 The investing layer ensheathes the trapezius muscle. 2. Military. Of a hostile force: that surrounds and blockades a town, stronghold, etc. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > attack > action or state of siege or blockade > [adjective] > besieging or blockading blockading1735 beleaguering1753 investing1780 besieging1813 leaguering1816 1780 Remembrancer 10 50/2 The town and fortifications..shall be surrendered in their present state, to the Commanders of the investing forces. 1828 J. M. Spearman Brit. Gunner 44 The arrangement usually made for the reception of the investing corps. 1872 J. Yeats Growth Commerce 269 They were, however, obliged to abandon the siege by Robert Clive, who subsequently defeated the investing army. 1936 E. A. Falk Togo & Rise of Japanese Sea Power xxii. 441 The investing troops were disembarked a hundred and fifty miles north of Tsingtao. 1979 Bull. School Oriental & Afr. Stud. 42 11 Provided..that the wells themselves were defended, an investing force would soon run short of water. 2006 S. Conway War, State, & Society Mid-18th-cent. Brit. & Ireland i. 22 Clive then held Arcot against a substantial investing army. 3. That invests money or capital in an asset or assets, such as stocks, bonds, property, etc. ΚΠ 1845 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. May 551/1 I will not say that the writer of the Biggleswade prospectus was as soaring a genius as Bob; but he was quite enough of a Claude to seduce the investing public. 1877 S. E. Platt Building Societies 10 An investing member never knew..what he was entitled to receive if he wanted to withdraw. 1943 Bull. Business Hist. Soc. 17 66 In some cases an investing partner also held a share in the capital but was not entrusted with any managerial duties. 1974 Terminol. Managem. & Financial Accountancy (Inst. Cost & Managem. Accountants) 74 A company..is an associated company of the investing group or company if..the investing group or company's interest in the associated company is effectively that of a partner. 2015 N.Y. Times (National ed.) 23 Aug. 10/6 The authorities did nothing to disabuse the investing public of the notion that a rising stock market was a state-backed goal. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1551adj.1615
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