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▪ I. † ˈinventary, -arie, n. Obs.
[Variant f. inventory, after L. inventārium.]
= inventory n.
a1529Skelton Image Ipocr. ii. Wks. 1843 II. 427/2 Of inventaries [printed inventataries], Of testamentaries, And of mortuaries. 1568Grafton Chron. II. 10 After an Inventary taken thereof, caused the same to be brought into his treasurie. 1641Termes de la Ley 190 b, An Inventary is a catalogue or recitall in writing of all the goods and chattels of one that is dead, with the valuation of them by foure credible persons, which every Executor and Administrator ought to exhibite to the Ordinary at the time appointed him. 1703[see next]. 1763Wheelock Serm. 30 June (1767) 23 If I omit any thing in their inventary.
†b. loosely. A plan or specification. Obs.
1608Willet Hexapla Exod. 850 In publike buildings..the workmen haue a certaine inuentarie or plot giuen them, which they follow in their worke.
▪ II. † ˈinventary, v. Obs.
= inventory v.
1590Swinburne Testaments 220 First of all the moueable goodes were inuentaried and praised, as houshold stuffe, corne, and cattell, &c. then the immoueable, as leases of groundes or tenements. 1703Providence (U.S.) Rec. (1894) V. 144 All those Moveable goods the which are inventaried in the inventarey of my late husband his Estate. |