invitement

English

Etymology

invite +‎ -ment

Noun

invitement (plural invitements)

  1. (obsolete) invitation
    These are great invitements unto men to become saints — Thomas Goodwin.
    • c. 1621–6, Massinger, Philip, “The Unnatural Combat”, in Gifford, William, editor, The Plays of Philip Massinger‎, Act 1, Scene 1, published 1845, page 35:
      I'll seek no other ordinary then, / But be his daily guest without invitement;
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Chapman to this entry?)

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for invitement in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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