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invest (medicine)


invest


1. To put garments on; to clothe; to dress; to array; opposed to divest. Usually followed by with, sometimes by in; as, to invest one with a robe.

2. To put on. "Can not find one this girdle to invest." (Spenser)

3. To clothe, as with office or authority; to place in possession of rank, dignity, or estate; to endow; to adorn; to grace; to bedeck; as, to invest with honor or glory; to invest with an estate. "I do invest you jointly with my power." (Shak)

4. To surround, accompany, or attend. "Awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt." (Hawthorne)

5. To confer; to give. "It investeth a right of government." (Bacon)

6. To inclose; to surround of hem in with troops, so as to intercept succors of men and provisions and prevent escape; to lay siege to; as, to invest a town.

7. To lay out (money or capital) in business with the iew of obtaining an income or profit; as, to invest money in bank stock.

Origin: L. Investire, investitum; pref. In- in + vestire to clothe, fr. Vestis clothing: cf. F. Investir. See Vest.

Source: Websters Dictionary


vicious (iou)



vicious adjective & noun. Also (arch.) vitious. ME.
[Old French (mod. vicieux) from Latin vitiosus, from vitium VICE noun1: see -IOUS.]
A. adjective.
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by vice or immorality; depraved, immoral; profligate. ME.
Burke His practical and speculative morals were vitious in the extreme. G. Greene The most vicious men have sometimes narrowly evaded sanctity.
Morally or practically condemnable; reprehensible, blameworthy. LME.
Law. Not satisfying legal requirements; legally flawed or invalid. Now rare or obsolete. LME.
gen. Impaired or weakened by a defect; faulty, unsound; (of language etc.) corrupt, debased. LME.
Times Literary Supplement It would make for vicious illation, proving Brown's 'detached perspective' a cloak for myopia.
b. Of a person: wrong, mistaken. rare (Shakes.). Only in E17.
Shakespeare Othello Though I perchance am vicious in my guess.
Noxious, harmful to Health; foul. Long rare or obsolete. L16.
b. Of a part of the body: diseased. E17-M18.
a. Of an animal: inclined to be savage or bad-tempered. E18.
A. Carter The rats grew fat as piglets and vicious as hyenas.
b. Malignantly bitter or severe; malicious, spiteful, violent; transf. (of weather) severe, inclement. E19.
Time Described as the most vicious Mob boss of his generation. Vanity Fair The increasingly vicious threats Liman was receiving.
Special collocations: vicious abstraction Philosophy the abstraction of one quality or term from a thing at the expense of others. vicious circle: see CIRCLE noun 12. vicious cycle = CIRCLE noun 12. vicious intromission: see INTROMISSION 1. vicious spiral an undesirable progression of dependent causes and effects; esp. a cumulative rise in prices and wages.
b. absol. as noun pl. The people who are vicious, as a class. LME.
viciously adverb ME.
viciousness noun LME.