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Definition of Contrives

Contrive
Contrive Con*trive", v. i. To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot. The Fates with traitors do contrive. --Shak. Thou hast contrived against th very life Of the defendant. --Shak.
Contrive
Contrive Con*trive", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contrived; p. pr. & vb. n. Contriving.] [OE. contriven, contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con- + trouver to find. See Troubadour, trover.] To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. --Tillotson. neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life. --Hawthorne. Syn: To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot; concert; hatch.

Meaning of Contrives from wikipedia

- Contrive are a heavy metal band from Melbourne, Australia formed in 1999. Their musical style has been compared to that of Sepultura. The band consists...
- Bradshaw, Peter (22 May 2024). "Parthenope reviewPaolo Sorrentino contrives a facile, bikini-clad self-parody". The Guardian. Retrieved 24 May 2024...
- invaded England. Elizabeth asked Paulet, Mary's final custodian, if he would contrive a clandestine way to "shorten the life" of Mary, which he refused to do...
- Belgium and The Netherlands) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness"). The foundational qualifications...
- after the war began, and they were accused of supporting British rule, "contrivers and authors of seditious publications" critical of the revolutionary cause...
- Hypotheses non fingo (Latin for "I frame no hypotheses", or "I contrive no hypotheses") is a phrase used by Isaac Newton in the essay "General Scholium"...
- bond (equal to £39,548, or about US$42,000 today) or be arrested for "contriving, writing and publishing the said scandalous Papers". The most famous primary...
- Hecate. During the war, but before the events of the Iliad, Odysseus contrives a plan to get revenge on Palamedes for threatening his son's life. By...
- to collect the insurance money and leave the country. Stephanie later contrives to meet with Emily, who explains that she and her sister indeed started...
- finally the art of ac****ulating much money for ourselves, but also of contriving that our neighbours shall have less. In accurate terms, it is "the art...