ppl. a. Cleverly fabricated or made up. Cf. It. ben trovato.
Well invented occurs as pa. t. in Spenser’s F. Q., IV. ii. 2, IV. xii. 2.
1697. Dryden, Æneis, II. 206. He full of fraudful Arts This well invented Tale for Truth imparts.
17[?]. Bysshe, Art Engl. Poetry (1762), I. Pref. p. vii. The well-invented Fables of the Antients were design’d only to inculcate the Truth with more Delight.
