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lay investiture
[ ley in-ves-ti-cher, -choor ]
noun
- (in medieval Europe) bestowal of a church office by a member of the secular nobility rather than by church officials:
Pope Gregory VII prohibited lay investiture of bishops and, in 1076, excommunicated the Holy Roman Emperor for his resistance.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of lay investiture1
First recorded in 1610–20
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Example Sentences
Gregory held a second council and utterly forbade lay investiture.
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In time the Church came to perceive how closely lay investiture was bound up with simony.
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In forbidding lay investiture Gregory attempted nothing less than a revolution.
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Now, the papal rule in the matter was plain; all homage and lay investiture were strictly prohibited.
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Therefore the papal ax must be laid at the very root of the evil, namely, lay investiture and the secular control of the clergy.
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