in heraldry, denotes a thing fluted or furrowed.

Invected is just the reverse of ingrailed, in which the points are turned outward to the field; whereas in invected they are turned inward to the ordinary, and the small semicircles outward to the field. See Plate CII. fig. 2.

INVICTIVE, in rhetoric, differs from reproof, as the latter proceeds from a friend, and is intended for the good of the person reproved; whereas the invective is the work of an enemy, and entirely designed to vex and give uneasiness to the person against whom it is directed.