Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Relating to invention; of the nature of invention.
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Examples
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The murals make a "theater" of locations that, apparently, was assumed to be conducive to inventional meditation — not because it provided subject-matter, but because the familiarity, the route - (and rote) - like quality, of such a patterned series in one's most tranquil space could help provide an order or "way" for compositional cogitation. 118 62
Architecture and Memory: The Renaissance Studioli of Federico da Montefeltro 2008
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_ This is not evinced so much in creative directions as in poetical, musical, combinatory, inventional and what, if coupled with learning, we call literary imagination.
The Negro Problem Timothy Thomas Fortune 1892
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He writes: Entrepreneurs have plenty of ideas, and some, like Steven P. Jobs of Apple, have come up with some brilliant ideas in the "inventional" sense of the word.
The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com Jumpstart 2011
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This issue, I suppose, would be whether you want to assess the inventional process or the outcomes of invention.
digital b 2008
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