Invects vs Invests - What's the difference?
invects | invests |
(invest)
(dated) To clothe or wrap (with garments).
* 1851 , Herman Melville, Moby-Dick :
(obsolete) To put on (clothing).
* Spenser
To envelop, wrap, cover.
* 1667': Night / '''Invests the Sea, and wished Morn delayes — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 207-8
To commit money or capital in the hope of financial gain.
To spend money, time, or energy into something, especially for some benefit or purpose.
To ceremonially install someone in some office.
To formally give (someone) some power or authority.
* Shakespeare
To formally give (power or authority).
* Francis Bacon
To surround, accompany, or attend.
* Hawthorne
To lay siege to.
To make investments.
(metallurgy) To prepare for lost wax casting by creating an investment mold (a mixture of a silica sand and plaster).
(meteorology) An unnamed tropical weather pattern "to investigate" for development into a significant (named) system.
As verbs the difference between invects and invests
is that invects is third-person singular of invect while invests is third-person singular of invest.invests
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Verb
(head)invest
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Etymology 1
From (etyl) investir, from (etyl) ; see vest.Verb
(en verb)- He was but shabbily apparelled in faded jacket and patched trowsers; a rag of a black handkerchief investing his neck.
- cannot find one this girdle to invest
- We'd like to thank all the contributors who have invested countless hours into this event.
- I do invest you jointly with my power.
- It investeth a right of government.
- awe such as must always invest the spectacle of the guilt
- to invest a town
