Middle English Dictionary Entry
adinvenciǒun n.
Entry Info
| Forms | adinvenciǒun n. |
| Etymology | OF & L |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
An idea of one's own inventing; a fabrication.
Associated quotations
- a1500(1413) *Pilgr.Soul (Eg 615)2.4.32a : Heretikes..peruerte the sentence of holy scripture..clowtyng with vicious adinuenciouns the lawe of crist is gospelle.
- a1500 Imit.Chr.(Dub 678)7/4 : Seche raþer to be tauȝt of þy better þan to folowe þine ovne adinuencions [L adinventiones].