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1. Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
coined, conceived, concocted, cooked-up, discovered, fabricated, fabulous, fancied, fantasied, fantastic, fictional, fictitious, figmental, forged, hatched, legendary, made-up, manufactured, minted, mythical, new-minted, originated, put-up, trumped-up
Dictionary Results for invented:
1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invented; p. pr. & vb.
   n. Inventing.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come
   upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to
   E. come: cf. F. inventer. See Come.]
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   1. To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.]
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            And vowed never to return again,
            Till him alive or dead she did invent. --Spenser.
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   2. To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to
      devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; --
      applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable
      mode, instrument, or machine.
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            Thus first Necessity invented stools. --Cowper.
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   3. To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to
      forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the
      machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood.
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            Whate'er his cruel malice could invent. --Milton.
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            He had invented some circumstances, and put the
            worst possible construction on others. --Sir W.
                                                  Scott.

   Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate;
        concoct; elaborate. See Discover.
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