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Inventar, v. Also: -er, -ir. [f. Inventar n.2 Cf. Inventour v.] tr. To make an inventory of; to enter in an inventory; to list. Also inventering vbl. n.(a) 1598 Acts IV. 174/2.
At the leist [to] inventar thair [rebels'] guidis and geir, [and] send the said inventare to the thesaurare 1647 Stirling B. Rec. I. 193.
To inventar … the tounes haill bookis, writtis & prothogollis 1656 Edinb. B. Rec. IX. 17.
The Counsell ordaines the writts of hospitalls respective to be inventarred and put up in their several cabinets 1696 Foulis Acc. Bk. 188.
For a coatch hyre to Raevelst. with Crist. Lockart, Ann Seton and my good douchter to inventar things(b) 1638 Rep. Elphinston Mun. 26.
Tua little cabinettis witht sindrie … unproffitable wretes … nocht worthie to be inventered 1648 Linlithgow Pal. 333.
Whilkis plenishing … contenit in the inventar … I … grant me … to haue inventerit 1659 Glasgow B. Rec. II. 426.
For sorting and inventering of the tounes wrytis(c) 1663 Inventory Lord J. Gordon's Furnit.
The insight of the place of Greenlaw is inventired beffoir the persones following
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