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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Postliminiar :: Postliminiar (a.) Contrived, done, or existing subsequently..
Fudge :: Fudge (v. t.) To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate.
Contrive :: Contrive (v. t.) To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.
Intrigue :: Intrigue (v. i.) To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.
Timbered :: Timbered (a.) Built; formed; contrived.
Manage :: Manage (n.) To bring about; to contrive.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To prepare; to make ready; to contrive; to provide; as, to lay a snare, an ambush, or a plan..
Cipher :: Cipher (n.) A private alphabet, system of characters, or other mode of writing, contrived for the safe transmission of secrets; also, a writing in such characters..
Pack :: Pack (n.) To contrive unfairly or fraudulently; to plot.
Conceited :: Conceited (a.) Curiously contrived or designed; fanciful.
Machinate :: Machinate (v. i.) To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot..
Devise :: Devise (v. t.) To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme; as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or an argument..
Imagine :: Imagine (v. t.) To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5..
Procure :: Procure (v. t.) To contrive; to bring about; to effect; to cause.
Contrivement :: Contrivement (n.) Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
Enginer :: Enginer (n.) A contriver; an inventor; a contriver of engines.
Premeditate :: Premeditate (v. t.) To think on, and revolve in the mind, beforehand; to contrive and design previously; as, to premeditate robbery..
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..
Forethink :: Forethink (v. t.) To contrive (something) beforehend.
Frame :: Frame (v. t.) To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false..
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