investitive

The board's investitive ceremony formally granted the new director full authority.

Definition

• Adjective: Relating to the act of investing someone with a position, office, or authority; pertaining to the formal conferral of power, dignity, or rights.

Usage Examples

• (Relating to the official act of giving someone a high ecclesiastical office.)
• (Pertaining to the authority to confer positions or titles.)

Advanced Usage

• "investitive rights": Legal or procedural powers to appoint or install someone into a role.
  • The investitive rights of the council were challenged by the new charter. (The council's ability to formally appoint officials was disputed.)

Variants and Related Words

• Investiture (noun): the formal act of conferring an office, rank, or title.

  • The investiture of the new president took place in the grand hall. (The ceremony of formally installing the president.)

• Invest (verb): to formally give someone a position or authority.

  • The king invested the knight with the Order of the Garter. (The king formally granted the knight membership in the order.)

Synonyms

• Conferring: relating to the granting of a title or honor.
• Appointive: pertaining to the act of appointing someone to a position.

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