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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Artificial :: Artificial (a.) Made or contrived by art; produced or modified by human skill and labor, in opposition to natural; as, artificial heat or light, gems, salts, minerals, fountains, flowers..
Ingeniate :: Ingeniate (v. t. & i.) To invent; to contrive.
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..
Hatcher :: Hatcher (n.) One who contrives or originates; a plotter.
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..
Enginer :: Enginer (n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
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..
Forethink :: Forethink (v. t.) To contrive (something) beforehend.
Contrivble :: Contrivble (a.) Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised..
Forecast :: Forecast (v. i.) To contrive or plan beforehand.
Forethink :: Forethink (v. i.) To contrive beforehand.
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..
Postliminiar :: Postliminiar (a.) Contrived, done, or existing subsequently..
Manager :: Manager (n.) A contriver; an intriguer.
Devisable :: Devisable (a.) Capable of being devised, invented, or contrived..
Seek-sorrow :: Seek-sorrow (n.) One who contrives to give himself vexation.
Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
Concerted :: Concerted (a.) Mutually contrived or planned; agreed on; as, concerted schemes, signals..
Contrived :: Contrived (imp. & p. p.) of Contriv.
Resonator :: Resonator (n.) Anything which resounds; specifically, a vessel in the form of a cylinder open at one end, or a hollow ball of brass with two apertures, so contrived as to greatly intensify a musical tone by its resonance. It is used for the study and analysis of complex sounds..
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