Invent(v. t.) To come or light upon; to meet; to find.
Invent(v. t.) 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.
Invent(v. t.) 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.
Invented(imp. & p. p.) of Invent
Inventer(n.) One who invents.
Inventful(a.) Full of invention.
Inventible(a.) Capable of being invented.
Inventibleness(n.) Quality of being inventible.
Inventing(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Invent
Invention(n.) The act of finding out or inventing; contrivance or construction of that which has not before existed; as, the invention of logarithms; the invention of the art of printing.
Invention(n.) That which is invented; an original contrivance or construction; a device; as, this fable was the invention of Esop; that falsehood was her own invention.
Invention(n.) Thought; idea.
Invention(n.) A fabrication to deceive; a fiction; a forgery; a falsehood.
Invention(n.) The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
Invention(n.) The exercise of the imagination in selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.
Inventive(a.) Able and apt to invent; quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; as, an inventive head or genius.
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