a person wounded, maimed, or disabled for action by age.

INVICTED, in Heraldry, denotes a thing fluted or furrowed. See Heraldry.

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

INVENTION denotes the art of finding any thing new, or even the thing thus found. Thus we say, the invention of gunpowder, the invention of printing, and so on.

Invention is also used for the finding of a thing hidden. The Roman Catholic church celebrates a feast on the 4th of May, under the title of the invention of the holy cross.

Invention is also used for subtlety of mind, or something peculiar to a man's genius, which leads him to discover things new; in which sense we say, a man of invention.