Definition of contrive

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Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

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Catch :: Catch (n.) A humorous canon or round, so contrived that the singers catch up each other's words..
Hatch :: Hatch (v. t.) To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy..
Imagine :: Imagine (v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5..
Imaginer :: Imaginer (n.) One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives.
Carve :: Carve (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Agitate :: Agitate (v. t.) To revolve in the mind, or view in all its aspects; to contrive busily; to devise; to plot; as, politicians agitate desperate designs..
Manager :: Manager (n.) A contriver; an intriguer.
Ingeniate :: Ingeniate (v. t. & i.) To invent; to contrive.
Invent :: Invent (v. t.) To discover, as by study or inquiry; to find out; to devise; to contrive or produce for the first time; -- applied commonly to the discovery of some serviceable mode, instrument, or machine..
Hood :: Hood (n.) A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind..
Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Built; formed; contrived.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Plan :: Plan (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country..
Self-registering :: Self-registering (a.) Registering itself; -- said of any instrument so contrived as to record its own indications of phenomena, whether continuously or at stated times, as at the maxima and minima of variations; as, a self-registering anemometer or barometer..
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement..
Machinate :: Machinate (v. t.) To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil..
Artless :: Artless (a.) Contrived without skill or art; inartistic.
Ingenious :: Ingenious (a.) Possessed of genius, or the faculty of invention; skillful or promp to invent; having an aptitude to contrive, or to form new combinations; as, an ingenious author, mechanic..
Excogitate :: Excogitate (v. t.) To think out; to find out or discover by thinking; to devise; to contrive.
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