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