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Attack, of a difeafe.—What demonftrates the. plague to be 
endemial to Egypt, is its invafion and going off at certain 
feafons. A rbut knot. - 
INVA'SIVE, adj. Entering hoffilely upon other men’s 
poffeffions i not defenfive.—1 mull come clofer to my 
purpofe, and not make more invafrue wars abroad, when, 
like Hannibal, I am called back to the defence of my 
country. Dryden. 
Let other monarchs, with invaf.v'e bands, 
LefTen their people, and extend their lands; 
By gafping nations hated and obeyed, 
Lords of the defarts that their fwords had made. Arbuthnol. 
INVECT'ED, adj. In heraldry, fluted, furrowed. 
INVECTIVE, f. [Fr. inveftiva, low Lat.] A cenfure 
in fpeech or writing; a reproachful accufation.—Plain 
men defiring to ferve God as they ought, but being not 
fo fkilful as to unwind themfelves, where the fnares of 
gloflng fpeech do lie to entangle them, are in mind not a 
-little troubled, when they hear fo bitter inveBives againft 
that which this church hath taught them to reverence as 
holy, to approve as lawful, and to obferve as behoveful 
for the exercife of Chriftian duty. Hooker. —It is ufed with 
again]}.— Catting off refpeft, he fell into bitter inveBives 
againjl the French king. Bacon. 
So defp’rate thieves, all hopelefs of their lives. 
Breathe out invectives 'gain)} the officers. Skakefpeare. 
Lefs properly with at.— -Whilll we condemn others, we 
may indeed be in the wrong; and then all the inveBives 
we make at their fuppofed errors fall back with a re- 
bouhded force upon our own real ones. Decay of Piety . 
INVECTIVE, adj. Satirical; abufive : 
Let him rail on ; let his inveffive mufe 
.Have four-and-twenty letters to abufe. Drydcn. 
INVEC'TIVELY, adv. Satirically; abufively ; 
Thus molt inventively he pierceth through 
The body of the country, city, court,; 
Yea, and of this our life; fwearing that we 
Are mere ufurpers, tyrants. Skakefpeare. 
INVEC'TIVENESS,/. A difpofition to inveftive, cen¬ 
fure, reproach. Scott. 
To INVEI'GH, v. a. [inveho, Lat.] To utter cenfure 
or reproach : with againji. —He inveighs feverely againft 
the folly of parties, in retaining fcoundrels to retail their 
lies. Arbutknot. 
INVEI'GHER, f. Vehement railer.—One of thefe in- 
weighers againft mercury, in feven weeks, could not cure 
one final! herpes in the face. Wifeman. 
INVEI'GHING, /. The aft of uttering cenfure. 
To INVEI'GLE, v. a. \invogliarc, Ital. Minfhew ; aveu- 
gler, or euavcugler, Fr. Skinner and Junius .] To perluade 
£0 fomething bad or hurtful; to wheedle; to allure; to 
feduce.—Thole drops of prettinefs, fcatteringly fprinkled 
amongft the creatures, were deflgned to exalt our con¬ 
ceptions, not inveigle or detain our paflions. Boyle. 
Yet have they many baits and guileful fpells. 
To inveigle and invite th’ unwary lenfe 
Of them that pafs unweeting by the way. Milton. 
INVEI'GLER, f. Seducer; deceiver; allurer to ill.— 
Being prefented to the emperor for his admirable beauty, 
the prince clapt him up as his inveigler. Sandys. 
INVEI'GLING,/. The act of feducing. Spectator. 
INVEIL'ED, part. adj. Covered, as with a veil; 
Her eyes invayBd with forrowe’s clouds 
Scarce fee the light; 
Difdair.e hath wrapt her in the Ihrovvds 
Of loathed night. Brown. 
To INVEL'OP, See. See Envelop, yol.vi. 
INVEN'DEN, a mountain of the Tyrolefe: fourteen 
miles noTth-north-eaft of Brixen. 
INVEN'DIBLE, adj. [from in , Lat. contrary to, and 
vendo, to fell.] Unfaleabie. Scott. 
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To INVEN f OM. See Tv Envenom, vol. vi. 
To INVENT, v. a. \inventer, Fr. invento , Lat.} To 
difeover; to find out; to excogitate ; to produce fome¬ 
thing not made before.—The fubftance of the fervice of 
God, fo far forth as it hath in it any thing more than the 
law of reafon doth teach, may not be invented of men, but 
muff be received from God himfelf. Hooker. —Woe to them 
that invent to themfelves inllruments of tnufic. Amos. 
Ye fkilful mailers of Machaon’s race, 
Who Nature’s mazy intricacies trace. 
By manag’d fire and late-invented eyes. Black more. 
To forge ; to contrive falfely; to fabricate.—I never did 
fuch things as thofe men have malicioufly invented againft 
me. Sufan. 4.3. —Here is a Arrange figure invented, againfl: 
the plain fenfe of the words. Stilling fleet. —To feign ; to 
make by the imagination.-—Hercules’s meeting with Plea- 
fure and Virtue was invented by Prodicus, who lived be¬ 
fore Socrates, and in the fir ft dawnings of philofophy. 
Addifon. 
I would invent as bitter fearching terms, 
With full as many figns of deadly hate. 
As lean-fac’d envy in her loathfome cave. Skakefpeare. 
To light on ; to meet with. Not ufed: 
Far off he wonders what them makes fo glad : 
Or Bacchus’ merry fruit they did invent, 
Or CybePs frantic rites have made them mad. Spcnfer. 
INVENTA'RIUM,/. [Latin.] In old records, an in¬ 
ventory. 
INVENTER. See Inventor. . 
INVEN'TING, f. The a 61 of difeovering; the aft of 
contriving. 
INVENTION, f. Excogitation ; the aft or power of 
producing fomething new. —Invention is a kind of mufe, 
which, being poffefled of the other advantages common 
to her fillers, and being warmed by the fire of Apollo, is 
raifed higher than the reft. Dryden .—The chief excellence 
of Virgil is judgment, of Homer is invention. Pope. 
O for a mufe of fire that would afeend 
The brightell heaven of invention! Skakefpeare. 
Bifcovery.—Nature hath provided feveral glandules to fe -1 
parate fpittle from the blood, and no lefs than four pair 
of channels to convey it into the mouth, which are of a 
late invention, and called duBus fahvales. Bay.—Forgery j 
fiftion : 
We hear our bloody coulins, not confeffing 
Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers 
With llrange invention. Skakefpeare. 
The thing invented.-—The garden, a place not fairer in 
natural ornaments than artificial inventions. Sidney. 
Th’ invention all admir’d ; and each how he 
To be th’ inventor miis’d, fo eafy it feem’d 
Once found, which yet unfound moll would have thought 
Impofiible. f ^ Milton. 
Finding of a thing hidden.-—The Romifh church cele¬ 
brates a feaft on the 4th of May, under the title of Inven¬ 
tion of the Holy Crofs. Ency. Brit .—And thus the word 
inventions is ufed in ancient charters for treafure-trove ; 
i. e. money or goods found by any perfon, and not chal¬ 
lenged by the owner; which, by the common law, is due 
to the king, who grants the privilege or benefit to fome 
particular lubjefts. See Chart. Ed. 1 . to the Barons of the 
Cinque Ports ; Placit. temp. Ed. 1 . & 11 . MS . f. 89. 
INVEN'T] OUS, adj. Ingenious.—Thou art a fine in¬ 
ventions rogue. Ben jon/on. 
INVENTIVE, adj. [ inventif, Fr. from invent ] Quick 
at contrivance ; ready at expedients.—Thofe have the in¬ 
ventive] heads for all purpofes, and roundeft tongues in 
all matters. AJcham. 
The inventive god, who never fails his part, 
Infpires the wit, when once he warms the heart. Dryden. 
Having 
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