Invent /(?)/

In·vent

Invent

v. t.

imp. & p. p. Invented; p. pr. & vb. n. Inventing

  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.
  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.
  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.
    He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others.