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Contrive
CONTRIVE, v.t.
1. To invent; to devise; to plan.
Our poet has always some beautiful design, which he first establishes, and then contrives the means which will naturally conduct him to his end.
2. To wear out.
[This must be from the L. Contero, contrivi, and if the French controuver, and Italian controvare, are the same word differently applied, the primary sense is, to invent by rubbing, that is, by ruminating; or to strike out, as in forge. But the word is probably from trouver, to find.]
CONTRIVE, v.i. To form or design; to plan; to scheme.
How shall we contrive to hide our shame? [This verb is really transitive, but followed by a verb, in the place of an object or name.]
contrive appears in definitions for these words:
Agitate Architect Artificer Artificial Artless Bred Breed Brew Careless Cast Chance Compass Complotted Conceivable Conserve Consult Contrivable Contrivance Contrive Crocodile Cut Descant Designer Devicefully Devisable Devise Devised Deviser Digester Evasive Excogitate Extructor Fable Father Forecast Forecaster Forelay Forethink Form Frame Framer Hammer Hatch Imagine Imagined Imaginer Ingenious Invent Invented Inventor Lay Machinate Machinated Matchmaker Meditate Meditated Modeler Panton Parrel Plot Plotted Plotter Polemoscope Postliminiar Precogitate Premeditate Premeditated Procure Project Punch Sackbut Scheme Schemer Seek-sorrow Shuffle Spring Subtilly Superficial Tabernacle Timbered Trangram Uncontrived Voltaic Whirling-table Wittily Year
Agitate Architect Artificer Artificial Artless Bred Breed Brew Careless Cast Chance Compass Complotted Conceivable Conserve Consult Contrivable Contrivance Contrive Crocodile Cut Descant Designer Devicefully Devisable Devise Devised Deviser Digester Evasive Excogitate Extructor Fable Father Forecast Forecaster Forelay Forethink Form Frame Framer Hammer Hatch Imagine Imagined Imaginer Ingenious Invent Invented Inventor Lay Machinate Machinated Matchmaker Meditate Meditated Modeler Panton Parrel Plot Plotted Plotter Polemoscope Postliminiar Precogitate Premeditate Premeditated Procure Project Punch Sackbut Scheme Schemer Seek-sorrow Shuffle Spring Subtilly Superficial Tabernacle Timbered Trangram Uncontrived Voltaic Whirling-table Wittily Year
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