inventedadj.
/ɪnˈvɛntɪd/ Discovered, found out (obsolete); devised, contrived; made up, fabricated, feigned.
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the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > invention, devising > [adjective] > invented, devised
i-gineta1225
invented?1541
excogitateda1620
the world > action or operation > endeavour > searching or seeking > finding or discovery > [adjective] > found or discovered
foundOE
invent?1520
discovered1537
invented?1541
the mind > mental capacity > knowledge > conformity with what is known, truth > disregard for truth, falsehood > fabrication of statement or story > [adjective]
feignedc1374
wronga1375
forged14..
falsesome1533
compound1574
flim-flam1577
coined1582
minted1598
fabled1606
commentitial1611
inventive1612
commentitious1615
fictiousa1644
fictitious1660
manufactured1705
commentative1716
made-up1806
inventeda1831
concocted1840
accrete1846
fictive1855
mythical1870
?1541 R. Copland Galen's Fourth Bk. Terapeutyke sig. Eiv, in Guy de Chauliac's Questyonary Cyrurgyens To the good and ryght vsage of inuented thynges.
1561 T. Norton tr. J. Calvin Inst. Christian Relig. i. f. 5 New inuented formes of worshipping God.
1667 J. Milton Paradise Lost ii. 70 Mixt with Tartarean Sulphur, and strange fire, His own invented Torments. View more context for this quotation
1729 W. Law Serious Call xv. 267 Those antick and invented motions which make fine dancing.
a1831 R. Whately Rhetoric in Encycl. Metrop. (1845) I. 253/1 Aristotle, in his Rhetoric, has divided Examples into Real and Invented.
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adj.?1541