Induction into a stall; installation. Obsolete.

Investiture of a person in an office or with power, etc.; = investiture, n. 3a 4 rare.

= installation, n.

gen. The formal introduction to an office, position, or possession; installation. (Cf. endue, v. 1.)

The action or an act of investing someone or something (in various senses of the verb); spec. that of investing someone in an office, rank, honour…

The action of investing someone, or the fact of being invested, with an office, rank, honour, etc.; a formal or ceremonial installation or induction…

The action of installing someone in an office, rank, honour, etc.; the action of ceremonially dressing someone in or presenting someone with…

Formal or ceremonial induction to an office or dignity; consecration, investiture, installation.

The action of installing or fact of being installed; formal induction into an office or dignity; installation.

The action or an act of investing someone or something (in various senses of the verb).

The action of installing or fact of being installed; the ceremony of formally inducting (a person) into an ecclesiastical dignity, an order of…

Law. (See quot. 1607 and investure, n.) Obsolete. rare.

The action of investing someone, or the fact of being invested, with an office, rank, honour, etc.; a formal or ceremonial installation or induction…

A ceremonial, official, or formal installation or induction. Cf. investiture, n. 3a.

The action or ceremony of investing someone with a rank, title, honour, etc.; investiture.