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Webster 1913 Edition
Investment
In-vest′ment
,Noun.
1.
The act of investing, or the state of being invested.
2.
That with which anyone is invested; a vestment.
Whose white
investments
figure innocence. Shakespeare
3.
(Mil.)
The act of surrounding, blocking up, or besieging by an armed force, or the state of being so surrounded.
The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort within six days after its
investments
. Marshall.
4.
The laying out of money in the purchase of some species of property; also, the amount of money invested, or that in which money is invested.
Before the
investment
could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible. A. Hamilton.
An
investment
in ink, paper, and steel pens. Hawthorne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Investment
INVEST'MENT
,Noun.
1.
Clothes; dress; garment; habit. [We now use vestment.]2.
The act of surrounding, blocking up or besieging by an armed force. The capitulation was signed by the commander of the fort, within six days after its investment.
3.
The laying out of money in the purchase of some speciesof property; literally, the clothing of money with something.
Before the investment could be made, a change of the market might render it ineligible.