— inventible, inventable , adj.
/in vent"/ , v.t.
1. to originate or create as a product of one's own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph.
2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story.
3. to make up or fabricate (something fictitious or false): to invent excuses.
4. Archaic. to come upon; find.
[ 1425-75; late ME invented (ptp.) found, discovered (see -ED 2 ) inventus, ptp. of invenire to encounter, come upon, find, equiv. to in- IN- 2 + ven ( ire ) to COME + -tus ptp. suffix ]
Syn. 1. devise, contrive. See discover. 2. imagine, conceive. 3. concoct.