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Word Origin & History

late 15c., "find, discover," a back-formation from invention or else from Latin inventus, past participle of invenire "to come upon; devise, discover" (see invention). Meaning "make up, think up" is from 1530s, as is that of "produce by original thought." Related: Invented; inventing.

Example Sentences forinvented

This system, once invented, was developed during thousands of years.

He would have called him an army-cad, only the word cad was not then invented.

But, though nobody had told him of such an art, he may be said to have invented it for himself.

It was the English who invented that story; they did not know what he was capable of, those English!

And the word was invented to distinguish the laymen from the clergymen.

Let that be the hope of the weak, whose theology has invented hell for the strong.

But as no Art was ever invented and perfected at once; so it remain'd for Mons.

Vail, as we have seen, also invented the plan of embossing the message.

Gray also invented a 'physiological receiver,' which has a curious history.

It'd be cheaper than coal, I thought; that's why I invented it.

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