Hypertext Webster Gateway: "contrive"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Contrive \Con*trive"\, v. i.
To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to
plot.
The Fates with traitors do contrive. --Shak.
Thou hast contrived against th very life Of the
defendant. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Contrive \Con*trive"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Contrived}; p. pr. &
vb. n. {Contriving}.] [OE. contriven, contreven, controven,
to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con- + trouver to find.
See {Troubadour}, {trover}.]
To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to
design; to plan.
What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of
the universe than infinite wisdom. --Tillotson.
neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught
against his life. --Hawthorne.
Syn: To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot;
concert; hatch.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
contrive
v 1: make or work out a plan for; devise; "They contrived to
murder their boss"; design a new sales strategy"; "plan
an attack" [syn: {plan}, {project}, {design}]
2: come up with (an idea, plan, explanation, theory, or
priciple) after a mental effort; "excogitate a way to
measure the speed of light" [syn: {invent}, {devise}, {excogitate},
{formulate}, {forge}]
3: put or send forth; "She threw the flashlight beam into the
corner"; "The setting sun threw long shadows"; "cast a
spell"; "cast a warm light" [syn: {project}, {cast}, {throw}]
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