"invect" meaning in English

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        "To import or introduce."
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        "(transitive) To import or introduce."
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          "ref": "1597, Don Richardo de Medico Campo [pseudonym; Richard Lichfield], The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman, London: […] [Edward Allde] for Philip Scarlet, →OCLC; republished as J[ohn] P[ayne] C[ollier], editor, The Trimming of Thomas Nashe Gentleman (Miscellaneous Tracts, Temp. Eliz. & Jac. I), [London: s.n.], 1870, →OCLC, page 15:",
          "text": "But, alas! why invect ſo againſt thy tongue? lingua a lingendo, and you know wee uſe alwayes to li[c]ke in, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt keepe in thy poyſon: or a ligando, which is to binde, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt binde up, and not disperſe abroad that ranker in thee.",
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          "text": "Your pictures far excel you, for they have / All that is good in you, your outward feature, / But your infernal minds they, happy, want. / Beauty, at best, is like a blooming tree, / Fairest in bud, when it bears foulest fruit. / Fool that I am thus to invect against her!",
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        "To subject to invective; to censure or rail against."
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        "(transitive) To subject to invective; to censure or rail against."
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          "text": "But, alas! why invect ſo againſt thy tongue? lingua a lingendo, and you know wee uſe alwayes to li[c]ke in, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt keepe in thy poyſon: or a ligando, which is to binde, and ſo thou ſhouldeſt binde up, and not disperſe abroad that ranker in thee.",
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          "text": "Your pictures far excel you, for they have / All that is good in you, your outward feature, / But your infernal minds they, happy, want. / Beauty, at best, is like a blooming tree, / Fairest in bud, when it bears foulest fruit. / Fool that I am thus to invect against her!",
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        "(transitive) To subject to invective; to censure or rail against."
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