0 (a ceremony of) giving (the robes etc of) high rank or office to someone -- høytidelig innsetting
the investiture of the Prince of Wales.
In this program, investiture is the central ritual for instilling that spirit within the body of the new leader.
Both events occur in contexts involving the transfer of power objects during the course of investiture.
It is one of those things that utterly refuse the investiture of language.
A vote for a certain prime minister basically means a vote for a particular cabinet and is therefore somewhat comparable to an investiture vote.
He represents not the continuing power of symbolic investiture but its recession into the dead past.
But a more significant reference to death and regeneration is the recumbent individual lying below the investiture scene.
Immediately after the government passed the investiture hurdle, new negotiations began between the government parties and three nongovernment parties.
Finally, we can imagine a constitution that always recognizes the incumbent cabinet first, but also requires an investiture vote.
