Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Investing; clothing; encircling.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective rare Investing.

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  • adjective law Serving or tending to invest, or endow with a right or possession.

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Examples

  • In today's offering, Bowen ruminates on interviews he had recently with UNRWA representative John Ging (who was trotted out round the clock to spew investive against Israel this week) and with Hamas leader Dr Mahmoud Zahar.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • In today's offering, Bowen ruminates on interviews he had recently with UNRWA representative John Ging (who was trotted out round the clock to spew investive against Israel this week) and with Hamas leader Dr Mahmoud Zahar.

    On Thursday, the Legg report will be published along with... 2009

  • My first draft was much longer, but I realized it was a bit…erm…angry instead of being informative and useful, so I cut out a bit of investive to tighten things up.

    Firedoglake » Beware the Ides of March 2006

  • March 15th, 2006 at 4:17 pm oops — investive = invective

    Firedoglake » Beware the Ides of March 2006

  • He posts millions of investive-ridden stuff like maple-leaf Nazi commie lefties doing and saying blah blah blah.

    First Lady Charged Michael Turton 2006

  • There runs all through the poem a sad note that heightens the courage with which the writer faces his own bleak conclusion, and, "the tinkling of the camel bell" is heard faint and far in the surge of his investive, or below the deepest deep of his despair.

    The Complete Works of Brann the Iconoclast, Volume 10 1905

  • DIATRIBE X EULOGY Meaning: Bitter Scolding, investive Using: During the leanghty diatribe delivered by his opponent he remained calm and self­controlled.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows tkjainbkn 2010

  • DIATRIBE X EULOGY Meaning: Bitter Scolding, investive Using: During the leanghty diatribe delivered by his opponent he remained calm and self­controlled.

    Recently Uploaded Slideshows 2010

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