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invented, ppl. a.|ɪnˈvɛntɪd| [f. invent v. + -ed1.] Discovered, found out (obs.); devised, contrived; made up, fabricated, feigned.
1541R. Copland Galyen's Terapeut. 2 E iv, To the good and ryght vsage of inuented thynges. 1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. i. 5 New inuented formes of worshipping God. 1667Milton P.L. ii. 70 Mixed with Tartarean Sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented Torments. 1726Law Serious C. xv. (1729) 267 Those antick and invented motions which make fine dancing. 1828Whately Rhetoric in Encycl. Metrop. I. 253/1 Aristotle, in his Rhetoric, has divided Examples into Real and Invented. |