Word Finder - invited

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To ask for the presence or participation of someone or something.

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We invited our friends round for dinner.

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To request formally.

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I invite you all to be seated.

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To encourage.

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I always invite criticism of my definitions.

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To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or hope; to attract.

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Having been asked to attend.

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Having an invitation.

She was invited to the party.

Keaton had invited her out.

When they reached the house, she invited him in for a cup of coffee.

Before you start that, I have invited a dinner guest tomorrow.

She was eager to answer our questions and invited us into the building.

I planned on going to Seychelles to escape the east coast cold, but Gio said being invited here was an honor.

As Carmen expected, when Alex was ready to leave, he invited Katie to go back with him.

He had invited Miss Sullivan and me to call on him one Sunday afternoon.

The last day I remember her, she invited me to a picnic outside the city, near a stream.

He had come to Darkyn in desperation, after Sasha had invited him to his bed and then dumped him off with the demons.

He invited her to come to see him at Hot Springs.

Since Katie had invited him up several times, she had obviously matured enough to forgive him.

Again she wished she had invited one of her friends.

Helen is invited to all the children's entertainments, and I take her to as many as I can.

The Empress' chamberlain invited him to see Her Majesty.

She invited them to take the wounded man into the house.

Carmen had invited Katie, Bill and a few friends from church that morning.

Napoleon thereupon invited the senate to "make known to him its thoughts completely."

The Genoese had been invited by Urban II.

If it had been for both of them, they would have invited some of her friends - like Katie and Bill.

His kinsman, Aegisthus, who in the interval had seduced his wife Clytaemnestra, invited him to a banquet at.

The emperor Julian went to him by the advice of Aedesius, and subsequently invited him to come to court, and assist in the projected resuscitation of Hellenism.

Just before five o'clock he went to the kitchen to begin preparing spaghetti for Fred and himself, and Martha, whom they had invited to again stay for supper.

They invited Carmen to join, but it was obvious that their skills were far better and she would only hold them back.

In 1901, at Cardiff, competition was invited in portable oil engines, agricultural locomotive oil engines and small ice-making plant suitable for a dairy.

These views he shared more or less with Vigors and Swainson, and to them attention will be immediately especially invited, while consideration of the scheme gradually developed from 1831 onward by Charles Lucien Bonaparte, and still not without its influence, is deferred until we come to treat of the rise and progress of what we may term the reformed school of ornithology.

In 1833 Moshesh invited the missionaries of the Societe des Missions Evangeliques of Paris to settle in his country, and from that day until his death proved their firm friend.

Finally, Baha-uddin was invited to Iconium by `Ala-uddin Kaikubad (1219-1236), the sultan of Asia Minor, or, as it is commonly called in the East, Ram - whence Jalaluddin's surname (takhallus) Rumi.

A great friend of Erasmus, whom he invited to Cambridge, whilst earnestly working for a reformation of abuses, he had no sympathy with those who attacked doctrine; and he preached at Paul's Cross (12th of May 1521) at the burning of Luther's books.

On the appeal of the abbots the dispute was now referred by the Holy Synod to the court of the Patriarch of Constantinople, and the intervention of the Russian Government was invited.

Thereupon the Quakers, who were perhaps not without the -obstinacy of which Marcus Aurelius complained in the early Christians, rushed to Massachusetts as if invited, and the result was that the general court of the colony banished them on pain of death, and four of them, three men and one woman,were hanged for refusing to depart from the jurisdiction or for obstinately returning within it.

After twice failing in the attempt to gain a professorship in the university, he was invited, during an illness of Dugald Stewart in the session of 1808-1809, to act as his substitute, and during the following session he undertook a great part of Stewart's work.

When he tried to visit them at their homes he found the task beyond him, and therefore invited them to meet him on Thursday evenings.

Beginning his rule with an affability that allayed suspicions and securing from Aubry proofs against the popular leaders, he invited them to a reception and arrested them while they were his guests.

The situation was however materially altered by the end of August 1826; for the Greeks, driven to desperation, had formally invited the mediation of England, thereby removing Canning's objection to an unasked intervention.

At the general election of 1910, however, his party was returned with a sweeping majority, and he was Prime llinister for three years, during which period he tackled the question of imperial defence, adopted Lord Kitchener's report of 1909, passed a measure establishing universal military training, and invited Adml.

On special occasions a sacrificial meal of cooked food was set out for the heroes, of which they were solemnly invited to partake.

In 1491 he was invited to preach in the cathedral, Sta Maria del Fiore, and his rule over Florence may be said to begin from that date.

Richard, being now the heir to England and Normandy, was invited to renounce Aquitaine in favour of Prince John.

Lands and privileges were granted to prelates, additional bishoprics were founded, and some years later Magdeburg was made the seat of an archbishop. In 960 Otto was invited to come to Italy by Pope John XII., who was hard pressed by Berengar, and he began to make preparations for the journey.

At his suggestion the duke invited Gladstone to stand for Newark in the Tory interest against Mr Serjeant Wilde, afterwards Lord Chancellor Truro.

Vermigli and Ochino were both invited to England by Cranmer in 1547, and given a pension of forty marks by the government.

He was invited to Geneva in 1.557, and to England again in 1561, but declined both invitations, maintaining, however, a constant correspondence with Jewel and other English prelates and reformers until his death at Zurich on the 12th of November 1562.

Tradition refers to the advent of a Chinese artist named Nanriu, invited to Japan in the 5th century as a painter of the Imperial banners, but of the labors and influence of Period, this man and of his descendants we have no record.

In 1731 he was elected a member of the Academy of Sciences at Berlin, and was invited to Augsburg as pastor and senior minister of the church of St Ulrich.

When invited to head a rebellion against the latter, he sent his son with a fleet which reached Constantinople unopposed, and precipitated the dethronement of Phocas.

The Athenians at once invited their allies to a conference, and the Second Athenian Confederacy was formed in the archonship of Nausinicus on the basis of the famous decree of Aristoteles.

Quickly attaining a prominent position among the Frankish nobles, he appears as rector of the abbey of Marmoutier in 852, and as one of Charles the Bald's missi dominici, in 853; but soon afterwards he was among those who rebelled against Charles, and invited the king's halfbrother, Louis the German, to invade West Francia.

The latter invited him to accompany him to Switzerland and Italy, a proposal which he eagerly accepted (1794) for the sake of the opportunity of furthering his studies in the fine arts.

This same Elector Frederick invited two young divines, Zacharias Ursinus and Caspar Olevianus,, to prepare the afterwards celebrated Heidelberg catechism, which in 1563 superseded Calvin's catechism in the Palatinate.