LekhoriLekhoriTo design a new process or mechanism.
After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.
To create something fictional for a particular purpose.
I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.
From Middle English inventen, borrowed from Old French inventer, from Latin inventus, perfect passive participle of inveniō (“come upon, meet with, find, discover”), from in (“in, on”) + veniō (“come”...
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To come upon; to find; to discover.
Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].