Search the Dictionary

some place; esp., to ask to an entertainment or visit; to request the company of; as, to invite to dinner, or a wedding, or an excursion. So many guests invite as here are writ. Shak. I invite his Grace of Castle Rackrent to reflect on this. Carlyle.

Invitation. [Obs.] Chapman.

One who, or that which, invites.

raw; to tempt by a lure or bait, that is, by the offer of some good, real or apparent; to invite by something flattering or acceptable; to entice; to attract. With promised joys allured them on. Falconer. The golden sun in splendor likest Heaven Allured his eye. Milton.

To invite; as, to ask one to an entertainment.

nfluence of a moral or emotional kind; to engage or fix, as the mind, attention, etc.; to invite or allure; as, to attract admirers. Attracted by thy beauty still to gaze. Milton.

To invite; to call in; to request to come. As many as ye shall find, bid to the marriage. Matt. xxii. 9 To bid beads, to pray with beads, as the Roman Catholics; to distinguish each bead by a prayer. [Obs.] -- To bid defiance to , to defy openly; to brave. -- To bid fair, to offer a good prospect; to make fair promise…

acter; -- often used of a divine summons; as, to be called to the ministry; sometimes, to invite; as, to call a minister to be the pastor of a church. Paul . . . called to be an apostle Rom. i. 1. The Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. Acts xiii. 2.…

To call, invite, or summon to answer for an offense by personal combat. By this I challenge him to single fight. Shak.

One who stands before a shop door to invite people to buy. [Low, Eng.]

of being colonized; the formation of a colony or colonies. The wide continent of America invited colonization. Bancroft.

Guests or visitors, in distinction from the members of a family; as, to invite company to dine.

e by letters. Corresponding member of a society, one residing at a distance, who has been invited to correspond with the society, and aid in carrying out its designs without taking part in its management.

To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract. A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. Tennyson.

f "Rasselas" little was said by the critics; and yet the faults of the plan might seem to invite severe criticism. Macaulay.

A natural occurrence of a useful mineral under the conditions to invite exploitation. Raymond.

To invite; to entertain. [Obs.] "Pleasures to entreat." Spenser.

ulty or impediment; to lessen the labor of; as, to facilitate the execution of a task. To invite and facilitate that line of proceeding which the times call for. I. Taylor.

uld be forgiven them. Mark iv. 12. He forgive injures so readily that he might be said to invite them. Macaulay.

ew; as, the plants in spring put forth leaves. When winter past, and summer scarce begun, Invites them forth to labor in the sun. Dryden.