INVEST Copy link • INVESTClothe with, (1) PROPR., [Vid: CLOTHE]. (2) With an office, munus alicui dare, mandare, deferre; muneri aliquem praeficere: to invest anybody with the chief command, summam imperii ad aliquem deferre: to be invested with an honorable office, honore affectum esse; with a priesthood, sacerdotio paeditum esse: to invest with full power, infinitam licentiam alicui dare; alicujus arbitrio rem gerendam tradere or committere (the last two of a particular affair). To adorn, grace, etc., Vid: To place money at interest, pecuniam collocare (e.g., to invest it in land, in agris; in the purchase of estates, in emptiones praediorum, Gai., Dig., 17, 1, 2; in an estate, in aliquo fundo, in solo; with anybody, apud aliquem; at a high rate of interest, graviore fenore, Suet.): pecuniam occupare, with or without fenore; apud aliquem or in aliqua re; safely, pecuniam fundare aliqua re (Hor., Ep., 1, 15, 46). Besiege, circumsedere: in obsidione habere or tenere: corona cingere, circumdare: corona moenia aggredi. Vid: BESIEGE.