invite

(in-vit’), v.; pret. and pp. invited, ppr. inviting. [ invite company, or action of; summon because of desire, favor, or courtesy: as, to invite a friend to dinner; to invite one to dance. Absalom had sheepshearers in Baal-hazor, and Absalom invited all the king's sons, 2 Sam, xiii. 23. No noontide bell invites the country round. Pope, Moral E ays, iii. 190. Not to the dance that dreadful voice invites, It calls to death, and all the rage of fights. Pope, Tliad, xv. 600. They entered into an a ociation, and the city of London was invited to accede. Goldsmith, Hist. England, xv. 2. To present allurement or incitement to; draw on or induce by temptation; solicit; incite. Yet have they many baits and guileful spells, To inyeigle and invite the unwary sense Of them that pa unweeting by the way. Milton, Comus, 1. 538. I saw nothing in this country that could invite me to a longer continuance. Swift, Gulliver's Travels, iii. 6. To resent his [Frederic’s] affronts was periious; yet not to resent them was to deserve and to invite them. Macaulay, Frederic the Great. The outside stations will be the first to invite the sayages, and if too far away we shall not know of the attack nor be able to come to the rescue. Harper’s Mag., UXXVI. 423. =Syn. 1, Convoke, Bid, etc. See call1.. ntrans. To offer invitation or enticement; attract. Come, Myrrha, let us on to the Euphrates; The hour ¢nvites, the galley is prepared. Byron, Sardana pal us, i. 2.