Further was it known that Ottavio was intriguing with Pope and Emperor to gain theinvestiture in his own father's stead.
Above all, Andrew was strong on the right of conferring ecclesiatical office, albeit he had himself accepted investiture at the hands of Ottokar.
A single setting sufficed for the pictorial investiture of the action.
Let us then briefly review the influences which led to the selection of the subject and the character of its literary investiture by the Italian poet.
We are justified in inferring that ability to supply an elaborate scenic investiturefor the sacred drama was not wanting.
In course of time the title lost its official character, and since the reign of Queen Anne all ceremony of investiture has been dispensed with, the title being conferred by letters-patent.
So the positive side of salvation is the investiture of the saved man with throbbing health through all his veins, and the strength that comes from a divine life.
To accord with the intense moral earnestness of the Christian system there must be, emphatically, in the Christian hope, cessation of all sin and investiture with all purity.
So the struggle over investiture was long and bitter.
The Cluniac party opposed all lay investiture and insisted that all the clergy should receive the symbols of their power from the church.
Lay investiture had already been prohibited by Nicholas II in the Lateran synod of 1059 but no steps had been taken to enforce the prohibition.
And this oath of fidelity I will observe to those of your successors who may confirm to me the investiture which you have granted me.
Peter and Paul, and to the holy Catholic church, all investiture by ring and staff.
The right of consecrating such bishops and abbots as have received investiture from you shall belong to the archbishops and bishops of your kingdom.
But if anyone has been chosen bishop by the clergy and people, he shall not be consecrated unless he has been approved by the aforesaid king and has received his investiture from him.
Normans in Sicily, history of the Austrian dominions, Germans and Slavs on the eastern frontier, relations of the emperors and the popes before the investiture strife, etc.
Any subject violating this decree shall lose his fiefs and benefices, shall be branded with infamy, and placed under the imperial ban; no one shall ever give him a fief or a benefice, and any grant or investituremade to him shall be void.
Vassals who have failed to receive investiture from us or to render the services due for their fiefs, during the war or the truce, shall not on this account lose their fiefs.
He read to Taikō Sama and the assembled court a letter from the Chinese emperor granting him investiture as king of Japan, and announced having sent by the ambassadors the robe and the golden seal pertaining to the office.
Some fears were felt as to how Taikō Sama would regard this proposition of investiture when he came to understand it.
He first sent a special envoy to Kagoshima, who was directed to summon the prince to Kyōto to submit himself to the emperor and seekinvestiture from him for the territories which he held.
At the ceremony of his investiture with the ducal honours, Cosimo solemnly undertook to revenge Alessandro's murder.
But the climax of the pageant was the novice's investiture with sword and spurs and belt in the cathedral.
Knights of the Shield are such as are made knights by commonwealths or princes, or go to investiture armed, and with the casque upon their head.
There he sued for the investiture and ratification of Provence.
The subject having thus been introduced, Folgore treats the ceremonies of investiture by an allegorical method, which is quite consistent with his own preference of images to ideas.
The mode of creation was copied from the investiture of a knight.
In 649 two dukes (one being the hereditary Duke of Shao, supposed to be descended from the same ancestor as the Earl reigning in the distant state of Yen) were sent to confer the formal patent and sceptre of investiture on Tsin.
This second birth is performed by investiture with the holy girdle.
With Brahmans, who naturally come to maturity sooner than the other orders, the consecration by investiture takes place in the eighth year, with the Kshatriyas in the eleventh, with the Vaicyas not till the twelfth.
But on the fifth day the rites ofinvestiture had been brought to an end, and Mentu and Nechutes entered on the routine of service.
Mentu remained in his house preparing for his investiture with the office of murket.
Then he received his helmet, his shield, and spear; and thus the investiture ended.
The Prince of Wales held another investiture of the Star of India on the 7th of March at Allahabad, which Lord Napier and the staff attended.
The ukase of investiture confirmed this pessimist view.
The capture of Ani prepared the way for the investiture of Kars; but the king of Kars appeased the victor by attiring himself in black robes, which he affected to be wearing out of respect for the death of Toghrul.
But both of these claims were invalid, since the investiture granted by Wenceslaus to the first duke excluded females.
But the Wars of Investiture placed them in antagonism, and the result of that quarrel was still further to divide the Italians, still further to remove the hope of national unity into the region of things unattainable.
Without receiving so much as a provisional investiture from the Pope, he satisfied his vanity by parading on May 12 as sovereign, with a ball in one hand and a scepter in the other, through the city.
Charles could not obtain from him an investiture of the kingdom he pretended to have conquered, while he had himself to surrender the fortresses of Civita Vecchia and Terracina.
The fief and the sword were the investiture of their power.
To encourage her the Courts of Love authorized a form of contemplative union in which lovers exchanged vows similar to those taken at the investiture of a vassal.
But the vast estimation in which men held the dignity of knighthood led them sometimes to defer it for great part of their lives, in hope of signalizing their investiture by some eminent exploit.
Ingulfus indeed tells us that the Anglo-Saxons preceded the ceremony of investiture by a confession of their sins, and other pious rites, and they received the order at the hands of a priest, instead of a knight.
Writers of the middle ages compare the knightly to the priestly character in an elaborate parallel, and the investiture of the one was supposed analogous to the ordination of the other.
While the Italians were fighting the Wars of Investiture and Independence, two literatures had arisen in the country which we now call France.
Nation defined itself against the Church and the Empire--the ecclesiastical and feudal or chivalrous principles--during the Wars of Investiture and Independence.
Rochford then arose, bowed to the monarch, to the knights-companions, who returned his salutations, and the investiture was complete.
I also elect you a knight-companion of the most honourable Order of the Garter, and your investiture and installation will take place to-day.
The Investiture officials and elevation pulley-men had, throughout the whole evening, been very violently--breathing.
The Investiture on Sunday (whose Gospel, of the Good Shepherd, suited well with the ceremony) I must despatch in few words; because nothing truly sublime can bear to be treated of in many.
At the investiture the boy's nails are cut and his hair is shaved, and he performs the hom or fire sacrifice for the first time.
The chiefs have no right to exercise any authority till they have received the tilak or token of investiture from their powerful Bhuiya vassals.
The first step -- the investiture of Lodovico il Moro with the duchy of Milan and the exclusion of his unhappy nephew -- was not of a kind to bear good fruits.
It became now necessary that the question of his title to the crown should be settled at once, and the pope was cautiously approached with the suggestion that he should give the investiture to the Infanta Isabel.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "investiture" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
