Filling their hearers With strange invention.
Shak.
5. The faculty of inventing; imaginative faculty; skill or ingenuity in
contriving anything new; as, a man of invention.
They lay no less than a want of invention to his charge; a capital
crime, . . . for a poet is a maker.
Dryden.
6. (Fine Arts, Rhet., etc.) The exercise of the imagination in
selecting and treating a theme, or more commonly in contriving the
arrangement of a piece, or the method of presenting its parts.
Invention of the cross (Eccl.), a festival celebrated May 3d, in honor
of the finding of our Savior's cross by St. Helena.