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invect

invect verb: to import or introduce.

Verb

invect (third-person singular simple present invects, present participle invecting, simple past and past participle invected)

  1. (transitive) To import or introduce.
  2. (transitive) To subject to invective; to censure or rail against.
    • But, alas! why invect ſo againſt thy tongue? lingua a lingendo, and you know wee uſe alwayes to li[c]ke in, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt keepe in thy poyſon: or a ligando, which is to binde, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt binde up, and not disperſe abroad that ranker in thee.1597, Don Richardo de Medico Campo [pseudonym; Richard Lichfield], The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, London: […] [Edward Allde] for Philip Scarlet, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne]...
    • Your pictures far excel you, for they have / All that is good in you, your outward feature, / But your infernal minds they, happy, want. / Beauty, at best, is like a blooming tree, / Fairest in bud, when it bears foulest fruit. / Fool that I am thus to invect against her!c. 1604–1626, doubtfully attributed to Francis Beaumont, John Fletcher, “The Faithful Friends”, in Henry [William] Weber, editor, The Works of Beaumont and Fletcher, in Fourteen Volumes: […], volume...
    Synonyms:
    inveigh

Synonyms of invect

Forms of invect

third-person singular presentinvects
present participleinvecting
past participleinvected
pastinvected

Origin of invect

From Latin invehō (“bring in, carry in”), from in- + vehō (“carry”).

Questions about invect

What does invect mean?
Invect means to import or introduce.
What part of speech is invect?
Invect is a verb.
What is the past tense of invect?
The past tense of invect is invected.

Words near invect in the dictionary

  1. inveagled
  2. inveagles
  3. inveagling
  4. invecked
  5. inveckée
  6. invect
  7. invected
  8. invecting
  9. invection
  10. invections
  11. invective

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