01 v. t. To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
imp. & p. p.
Invented; p. pr. & vb. n.
Inventing
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1.
To come or light upon; to meet; to find.[Obs.]“And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent.” — Spenser.
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2.
To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine.“Thus first Necessity invented stools.” — Cowper.
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3.
To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.“Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.” — Milton.“He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others.” — Sir W. Scott.