invent (v.)
- beget
- breed
- coin
- conceive
- conceptualize
- concoct
- contrive
- counterfeit
- create
- design
- determine
- develop
- devise
- discover
- engender
- envision
- evolve
- fabricate
- fake
- fancy
- fantasize
- fictionalize
- find
- forge
- formulate
- frame
- fudge
- generate
- get
- hatch
- head
- hit
- ideate
- imagine
- improvise
- inaugurate
- initiate
- innovate
- introduce
- lead
- locate
- manufacture
- mature
- mint
- mold
- originate
- pioneer
- plan
- precede
- procreate
- produce
- rediscover
- renew
- renovate
- revolutionize
- shape
- spawn
- strike
- suppose
- trace
To make a bank was a great plot of state;
Invent a shovel, and be a magistrate.
In fact, it is as difficult to appropriate the thoughts of others as it is to invent.
If there were no God, it would be necessary to invent him.
Young men are fitter to invent than to judge, fitter for execution than for counsel, and fitter for new projects than for settled business.