An invitation.
1659. Bishop Cranmer … gives him an earnest invite to England.—Hamon L’Estrange, ‘Alliance of Divine Offices,’ p. 326. (N.E.D.)
1834. The whole company stared at me as if I had come without an invite; and I swear I thought my arms had grown a foot longer, for I couldn’t get my hands in so sort of a comfortable fix.—Caruthers, ‘The Kentuckian in New-York,’ i. 29.
1843. Taking off his new fur hat, he extracted the “invite” from the lining and handed it over to the preacher.—B. R. Hall (‘Robert Carlton’), ‘The New Purchase,’ i. 154.
1844. A fair cousin, with whom we had carried on sundry pleasant flirtations, was, on the morrow, to take the bridal veil, on which interesting occasion we had a special invite to be present.—Yale Lit. Mag., ix. 263 (April).
1850. It was strange that he should come to my birthday party when he had no invite, wasn’t it?—Cornelius Mathews, ‘Moneypenny,’ p. 121 (N.Y.).
