Definition of contrive

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Contrive (v. i.) To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

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Contrivance :: Contrivance (n.) The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement..
Catchpenny :: Catchpenny (a.) Made or contrived for getting small sums of money from the ignorant or unwary; as, a catchpenny book; a catchpenny show..
Contrivble :: Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised..
Carve :: Carve (v. t.) To lay out; to contrive; to design; to plan.
Devisable :: Devisable (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived..
Father :: Father (n.) One who, or that which, gives origin; an originator; a producer, author, or contriver; the first to practice any art, profession, or occupation; a distinguished example or teacher..
Prepense :: Prepense (v. t.) Devised, contrived, or planned beforehand; preconceived; premeditated; aforethought; -- usually placed after the word it qualifies; as, malice prepense..
Plan :: Plan (v. t.) To scheme; to devise; to contrive; to form in design; as, to plan the conquest of a country..
Enginous :: Enginous (a.) Contrived with care; ingenious.
Artifice :: Artifice (n.) Workmanship; a skillfully contrived work.
Concerted :: Concerted (a.) Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals..
Figure :: Figure (v. t.) To calculate; to contrive; to scheme; as, he is figuring to secure the nomination..
Plot :: Plot (v. i.) To contrive a plan or stratagem; to scheme.
Enginer :: Enginer (n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
Getterup :: Getterup (n.) One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc..
Artificer :: Artificer (n.) One who makes or contrives; a deviser, inventor, or framer..
Contriver :: Contriver (n.) One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas..
Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Built; formed; contrived.
Thermoscope :: Thermoscope (n.) An instrument for indicating changes of temperature without indicating the degree of heat by which it is affected; especially, an instrument contrived by Count Rumford which, as modified by Professor Leslie, was afterward called the differential thermometer..
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..
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