different between investiture vs livery

English

Etymology

From Middle French investiture, from Medieval Latin invest?t?ra, from invest?re (“to clothe”).

Noun

investiture (plural investitures)

1. The act of investing, as with possession or power; formal bestowal or presentation of a possessory or prescriptive right.
2. That which invests or clothes; covering; vestment.

Translations

Further reading

• investiture in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• investiture in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “investiture”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
• Investiture in the Encyclopædia Britannica (11th edition, 1911)

French

Etymology

Middle French, borrowed from Medieval Latin invest?t?ra. Displaced Old French envesture.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.v?s.ti.ty?/

Noun

investiture f (plural investitures)

1. investiture
2. (politics) inauguration

Further reading

• “investiture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Italian

Noun

investiture f

1. plural of investitura

Latin

Participle

invest?t?re

1. vocative masculine singular of invest?t?rus

English

Etymology 1

From Anglo-Norman liveree, from Old French livree. Compare modern French livrée.

Alternative forms

• liveray

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?l?v.?.?i/
• (UK) IPA^(key): /?l?v.??/, /?l?v.?.??/
• Rhymes: -?v(?)??

Noun

livery (countable and uncountable, plural liveries)

1. Any distinctive identifying uniform worn by a group, such as the uniform worn by chauffeurs and male servants.
   • 1848, William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair, Chapter 8:

     And while the moralist, who is holding forth on the cover ( an accurate portrait of your humble servant), professes to wear neither gown nor bands, but only the very same long-eared livery in which his congregation is arrayed: yet, look you, one is bound to speak the truth as far as one knows it, whether one mounts a cap and bells or a shovel hat; and a deal of disagreeable matter must come out in the course of such an undertaking.

   • 1996, Judith M. Bennett, Ale, Beer, and Brewsters in England: Women's Work in a Changing World, 1300-1600

     By wearing livery, the brewers publicly expressed guild association and solidarity.
2. The whole body of liverymen, members of livery companies.
3. The paint scheme of a vehicle or fleet of vehicles.
4. (US) A taxicab or limousine.
5. (law) The delivery of property from one owner to the next.
6. (law) The writ by which property is obtained.
7. (historical) The rental of horses or carriages; the rental of canoes; the care and/or boarding of horses for money.
   • 1876, James Russell Lowell, Among My Books:Second Series, Keats

     Pegasus does not stand at livery even at the largest establishment in Moorfields.

9. (historical) A stable that keeps horses or carriages for rental.
10. An allowance of food; a ration, as given out to a family, to servants, to horses, etc.
    • 1825, George Cavendish, Life of Cardinal Wolsey (edited by Samuel Weller Singer)

      The emperor's officers every night went through the town from house to house whereat any English gentleman did repast or lodge, and served their liveries for all night: first, the officers brought into the house a cast of fine manchet [white bread], and of silver two great post, and white wine, and sugar.

11. Release from wardship; deliverance.
12. A low grade of wool.
13. Outward markings, fittings or appearance
    • 1609, William Shakespeare, Sonnet 2:

      When forty winters shall beseige thy brow,

      dig deep trenches in thy beauty's field,

      Thy youth's proud livery, so gazed on now,

      Will be a tatter'd weed, of small worth held:

Derived terms

• livery stable

Translations

Verb

livery (third-person singular simple present liveries, present participle liverying, simple past and past participle liveried)

1. (archaic) To clothe.

   He liveried his servants in the most modest of clothing.

Translations

Etymology 2

liver +? -y

Adjective

livery (comparative more livery, superlative most livery)

1. Like liver.
   • 2004, Anne DesBrisay, Capital Dining: Anne DesBrisay's Guide to Ottawa Restaurants, ECW Press ?ISBN, page 19

     We are happy for the chopped mushrooms within the warm goose liver paté, for the coarse, highly seasoned wedge has a robust livery flavour the 'shrooms manage to ease.

   • 2010, Christopher Kimball, Fannie's Last Supper: Re-creating One Amazing Meal from Fannie Farmer's 1896 Cookbook, Hachette UK ?ISBN

     A second test was similar, but we brought the internal temperature up to 130 degrees; the texture was chewy, the meat tasted livery, and had not melted.

   • 2010, Fidel Toldr, Handbook of Meat Processing, John Wiley & Sons ?ISBN, page 35

     Sulfur-containing compounds (thiols, sulfides, thiazoles, sulfur-substituted furans) can interact with carbonyl compounds to produce a livery flavor.

2. Queasy, liverish.
   • 2011, Dr Dorothy Shepherd, Homoeopathy For The First Aider, Random House ?ISBN, page 58

     The biliousness and livery feeling will disappear and the feeling of joy and happiness will be the reward.

   • 2011, Alec Waugh, Fuel for the Flame, A&C Black ?ISBN

     He felt fresh and buoyant. When he was young, and had taken a siesta, he had felt livery for a couple of hours afterwards, with a tongue like a chicken run

   • 2014, Emily Hahn, China to Me: A Partial Autobiography, Open Road Media ?ISBN

     To like everyone and to be happy with anyone was a virtue and its own reward, but I realized now that for weeks I had been feeling livery, impatient, restless.

Anagrams

• verily