invent

To design a new process or mechanism.

After weeks of hard work, I invented a new way to alphabetize matchbooks.

Accurſt be he that firſt inuented war

To create something fictional for a particular purpose.

I knew I had to invent an excuse, and quickly.

We need a name to put in this form, so let's just invent one.

To come upon; to find; to discover.

Far off he wonders, what them makes so glad, / If Bacchus merry fruit they did inuent [...].