| 释义 |
well-inˈvented, ppl. a.
Cleverly fabricated or made up. Cf. It. ben trovato.
Well invented occurs as pa. tense in Spenser's F.Q.. iv. ii. 2, iv. xii. 2.
1697Dryden æneis ii. 206 He full of fraudful Arts This well invented Tale for Truth imparts. 17..Bysshe Art Engl. Poetry (1762) I. Pref. p. vii, The well-invented Fables of the Antients were design'd only to inculcate the Truth with more Delight. |