Inventing

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Invented}; p. pr. & vb.
     n. {Inventing}.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come
     upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to
     E. come: cf. F. inventer. See {Come}.]
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     1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.]


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              And vowed never to return again,
              Till him alive or dead she did invent. --Spenser.
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     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.
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              Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper.
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     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.
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              Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton.
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              He had invented some circumstances, and put the
              worst possible construction on others. --Sir W.
                                                    Scott.
  
     Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate;
          concoct; elaborate. See {Discover}.
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