inventing
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
Invent \In*vent"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Invented; p. pr. & vb. n. Inventing.] [L. inventus, p. p. of invenire to come upon, to find, invent; pref. in- in + venire to come, akin to E. come: cf. F. inventer. See Come.] [1913 Webster]
1.To come or light upon; to meet; to find. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
And vowed never to return again, Till him alive or dead she did invent.— Spenser.[1913 Webster]
2.To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine. [1913 Webster]
Thus first Necessity invented stools.— Cowper.[1913 Webster]
3.To frame by the imagination; to fabricate mentally; to forge; -- in a good or a bad sense; as, to invent the machinery of a poem; to invent a falsehood. [1913 Webster]
Whate'er his cruel malice could invent.— Milton.[1913 Webster]
He had invented some circumstances, and put the worst possible construction on others.— Sir W. Scott.
Syn: To discover; contrive; devise; frame; design; fabricate; concoct; elaborate. See Discover. [1913 Webster]