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.
It investeth a right of government. --Bacon.
6. (Mil.) 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.