invasion

[French, from Lat. invasionem, acc us. of invasio =a going in, from invasus, pa. par. of invado to invade (q. v.); Sp. invasion; Italian in vas i one.] 1. The act of invading; the act of entering into the country of another with a view to conquest or plunder; a hostile attack upon or entrance into the territory of others. "Found able by invasion to annoy Thy country." Milton: P. R. , iii. 365. 2 An attack or encroachment on the rights or privileges of others; infringement; violation. 3. The approach or a ault of anything dangerous or pernicious. "What demonstrates the plague to be endemial to Egypt, is its invasion and going off at certain seasons." Arbuthnot. Invasion expre es merely the general idea, without any particular qualification; incursion signifies a hasty and sudden invasion ; irruption signifies a particularly violent invasion; inroad signifies a making a road or way for one's self, which includes invasion and occupation. (Crabb: Eng. Synon . ) In-vā-sive, a. [Low Lat. invasivus , from Lat. invasus , pa. par. of invado =to invade (q. v.); Fr. invasif.] Invading; aggre ive. "With them to dare The fiercest terrors of invasive war." Hoole : Orlando Furioso , bk. xxxiii. *In-věck-eě, a. [Etym. doubtful.] Her.: A term used by writers on heraldry for double arching. [ARCHED.] In-věct', v. i. [Lat. invectus , pa. par. of inveho = to carry into, to inveigh (q. v.).] To inveigh. "Fool that I am, thus to invect against her." Beaum. & Flet.: Faithful Friend , iii. 3. In-věct-ěd, a. [Lat. invectus , pa. par. of inveho =to carry in.] Her.: The reverse to engrailed, all the points turning inward to the ordinary thus borne, with the semicircles outward to the field. In-věc-tion, s. [Lat. invectio , from invectus , pa. par. of inveho .] Invective. In-věc-tive, s. & a. [Fr., from Lat. invectivus , from invectus , pa. par. of inveho =to inveigh (q.v.); Sp. invectiva ; Ital. invettiva .] A. As subst.: A censorious or vituperate attack on a person; a censure in speech or writing; a severe or violent expre ion of censure or abuse; a bitter and reproachful accusation. "A tide of fierce Invective seemed to wait behind her lips." Tennyson: Prince , iv. 451. abusive. B. As adj .: Censorious, satirical, vituperative, "Satire among the Romans, but not among the Greeks, was a biting invective poem."--Dryden : Juvenal. (Dedic.) In-věc-tive-ly, adv . [Eng. invective ; -ly.] In the manner of invective; abusively, censoriously, satirically. "Thus most invectively he pierceth through The body of the country, city, court." Shakesp.: As You Like It , ii. 1. tin-věcive-ne , s. [Eng. invective; -ne .] The quality of being invective or vituperative; abusivene . IMG:content-0023.png:[blocks in formation] 2367 against a person or thing; to declaim; to utter censorious and bitter language. (Usually followed by against , but sometimes by at and on .) "In regretting the depopulation of the country, I inveigh against the increase of our luxuries."- Goldsmith: Deserted Village. ( To Sir Joshua Reynolds.) In-veigh-er (eigh as ā), s. [Eng. inveigh; -er.] One who inveighs; a railer. "One of these inveighers against mercury, in seven weeks, could not cure one small herpes in the face."Wiseman: Surgery , bk. viii., ch. ii. In-vēi-gle, *en-vēi-gle, *in-vea-gle, v. t. [Etym. doubtful; by some thought to be a corruption of Fr. aveugler =to blind, from Low Lat. aboc ulus blind; Lat. ab- away, from, and oculus =an eye. By others referred to Ital. invogliare to give a desire to, to make one long for, from in- =in, voglia =a wish; Lat. volo to wish. Putten ham, in 1587, ranks this word with those which had been quite suade to something bad or hurtful; to entice, to recently introduced into the language.] To per seduce, to allure, to wheedle, to entrap. "A serjeant made use of me to inveigle country fellows, and list them in the service of the parliament." -Tatler , No. 249. In-vēi-gle-ment, s. [Eng. inveigle; -ment.] ment. 1. The act of inveigling; seduction to evil; entice2. That which inveigles, seduces, or allures; enticement. "Through the inveiglements of the world, and the frailty of his nature."-South: Sermons, vol. vi., ser. 4. In-vēi-gler, *en-vēi-gler, s. [Eng. inveigl ( e ); -er.] One who inveigles, entices, or seduces to evil; an allurer, an enticer. "As still is seene in court enueiglers are Procurers of despite and avarice." Mirror for Magistrates, p. 165. In-veil' (ei as ā), *in-vayl, v . t . [Pref. in- (1), and Eng. veil (q. v.).] To cover, as with a veil; to veil, to cover. In-vend-i-bil'-I-ty, s. [Pref. in- (2), and Eng. vendibility (q. v.).] The quality or state of being invendible; unsalable ne . "All that is terrible in this case is, that the author may be laughed at, and the stationer beggared by the book's invendibility." - Brome. (To the Reader.) inventory In-věn-tion, *in-ven-cion, s. [Fr. invention , from Lat. inventionem , acc us. of inventio =a coming upon, a finding out, from invent us , pa. par. of invenio to find out, to invent; Sp. invencion ; Ital. invenzione.] *1. The act of coming upon, meeting with, or finding; as, the Invention of the Cro of St. Helena. 2. The act, operation, or proce of finding out or discovering something new, or not previously known; discovery. "The finding out of apt matter, called otherwise inven tion , is a searching out of things true or things likely." Wilson: Arte of Rhetor i que , p. 6. 3. The act of excogitating, devising, or producing mentally; excogitation. "Generally all stanzas are, in my opinion, but tyrants and torturers, when they make invention obey their num. ber, which sometimes would otherwise scantle itself."Drayton: Barons' Wars . (Pref.) 4. The act of contriving, framing, and producing something new; as, the invention of the steam engine. 5. The power or faculty of inventing or excogita. ting; that skill or ingenuity which is, or may be, employed in contriving, devising, or excogitating anything new; the creative and imaginative faculty; specifically, in art, the conception or representation of a subject, the selection and disposition of its various parts, and the whole means by which the artist seeks to portray his thoughts. "Gifted by nature with fertile invention, an ardent temperament, and great powers of persuasion." -Macau lay : Hist . Eng ., ch. xx. 6. That which is invented; an original contrivance. "The invention all admired; and each how he To be the inventor mi ed, so easy it seemed, Once found." Milton: P. L., vi. 498. 7. That which is mentally invented or excogitated; a thought, a desire, a scheme, a forgery, a fabrication, a fiction. "We hear our bloody cousins, not confe ing Their cruel parricide, filling their hearers With strange invention." Shakesp.: Macbeth. 8. Music : A term used by J. S. Bach, and probably by him only, for small pianoforte pieces, each developing a single idea, and in some measure answering to the impromptu of a later day. Invention of the Cro : Ecclesiology and Church History: 1. The alleged finding of the cro of Our Lord by In-vend-i-ble, a. [Pref. in- (2), and English Helena, mother of Const an tine the Great. [HOLY- vendible (q. v.).] Not vendible; not salable; un- salable. In-věnt', v . t . [Fr. inventer , from Lat. invent us , pa. par. of invenio to come upon, to find, to invent, from in -in, upon, and venio = to come; Sp. in ventar; Ital. invent are .] *1. To come or light upon; to find, to meet with. "[She] vowed neuer to returne againe, Till him aliue or dead she did invent." Spenser: F. Q., III. v. 10. IMG:content-0024.png:[blocks in formation] (1) To invent, feign , and frame are all occasionally employed in the ordinary concerns of life, and in a bad sense; fabricate and forge are never used any otherwise. Invent is employed as to that employed as to that which is unreal; to frame is which is the fruit of one's own mind; to feign is employed as to that which requires deliberation and arrangement; to fabricate and forge are employed as to that which is absolutely false, and requiring more or le exercise of the inventive power. (Crabb: Eng. Synon. ) (2) For the difference between to invent and to contrive, see CONTRIVE; for that between to invent and to find , see FIND. In-věnt-er, s. [INVENTOR.] of invention; inventive. In-vent-fül, a. [English invent; ful ( 1 ).] Full In-vent-i-ble, a. [Eng. invent ; -able.] Capable of being invented; discoverable. "I thought there had been but one only exquisite way inventible."-Century of Inventions, No. 67. In vent-i-ble-ne , s. [Eng. inventible ; -ne .] The quality or state of being inventible. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; CROSS.] 2. A feast, celebrated on May 3, in honor of the event mentioned above. It is said to have been first celebrated in the Church of Santa Croce, at Rome. Gregory XI. (1370-78), who brought back the seat of the Popedom from Avignon to Rome, ordered a special office to be composed for this feast. Clement VIII. (1592-1605) raised it to a double of the second cla , and removed parts of the old office. *In-věn'-tious, a . [English invent ; -ious .] In ventive. In-věnt'-Ive, a. [Fr. invent if , from Lat. inven tus , pa. par. of invenio ; Ital. & Sp. inventivo .] 1. Quick at contrivance; ready at expedients; fertile in invention, imagination, or contrivance. "A beautiful and perfect whole Which busy man's inventive brain Toils to anticipate, in vain." Cowper: Epistle to Lady Austen. 2. Fabricating, false. "The queen's fond hope inventive rumor cheers." Pope: Homer's Ody ey, i. 523. In-vent-Ive-ly, adv . [Eng. inventive ; -ly.] By the means or power of invention.