1. To ask; to request; to bid; to summon; to ask to do some act, or go to 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.
2. To allure; to draw to; to tempt to come; to induce by pleasure or
hope; to attract.
To inveigle and invite the unwary sense. Milton.
Shady groves, that easy sleep invite. Dryden.
There no delusive hope invites despair. Cowper.
3. To give occasion for; as, to invite criticism.
Syn. — To solicit; bid; call; ask; summon; allure; attract; entice; persuade.
INVITE
In*vite", v. i.
Defn: To give invitation. Milton.
INVITEMENT
In*vite"ment, n.
Defn: Invitation. [Obs.] Chapman.
INVITER
In*vit"er, n.
Defn: One who, or that which, invites.