Middle English Dictionary Entry
inventī̆f adj.
Entry Info
| Forms | inventī̆f adj. |
| Etymology | Cp. invencciǒun & inventen; also cp. late OF inventif. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) Creative, inventive, skilled in invention; (b) inventively able (to create sth.).
Associated quotations
a
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.492 : He made seke..For swiche werkemen as were corious, Of wyt inventyf, of castyng merveilous.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)2.3076 : Demostenes, The most subtil rethorician, And most inuentiff among al the pres.
- (?a1439) Lydg.FP (Bod 263)3.3301 : Alcibiades..Loued clerkis, & fond hem ther despencis, Such as in practik he sauh most inuentiff.
- c1450(a1449) Lydg.SSecr.(Sln 2464)144 : That lond..of hih Resoun Is moost inventyff.
- c1450 De CMulieribus (Add 10304)1465 : She was..in wytt so inuentyse [read: inuentyfe] and wyse That she had kunnynge grete in prophecy.
- a1500(a1471) Ashby APP (Cmb Mm.4.42)12 : Ye had lafte to vs sum remembratife Of a personne, lerned & Inuentif.
b
- c1425(a1420) Lydg.TB (Aug A.4)2.4589 : Anoþer Aiax..was inventif for to counterfete Instrumentis..longyng to mvsik.