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INVENT', L. invenio, inventum in and venio, to come literally, to come to, to fall on, to meet, Eng. to find.

1. To find out something new to devise something not before known to contrive and produce something that did not before exist as, to invent a new instrument of music to invent a machine for spinning to invent gunpowder. See Invention.
2. To forge to fabricate to contrive falsely as, to invent falsehoods.
3. To feign to frame by the imagination as, to invent the machinery of a poem.
4. To light on to meet with. This is the literal sense, but not now used.
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Entry for 'Invent'. King James Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/​dictionaries/​eng/​kjd/​i/invent.html.
 
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