invention:
1.
power of mental
creation or construction, inventiveness, imagination
Ado V. i. 296
“if your love Can labour
aught in sad ,”
LLL. IV. ii. 130
“the jerks of ,”
H5 I. Chor. 2, Oth. II. ii. 125, Ven.
Ded. 5 “the first heir of my
invention.”
2.
work of imagination,
literary composition Tw.N. V. i.
345.
3.
device, design, plan
Shr. I. i. 194,
1H6 III. i. 5
“Do it without
invention, suddenly,”
Lr. I. ii. 20.
