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To contrive or plan beforehand. If it happen as I did forecast. Milton.

To contrive (something) beforehend. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

To originate; to plan; to devise; to contrive; to compose; in a bad sense, to invent or fabricate, as something false. How many excellent reasonings are framed in the mind of a man of wisdom and study in a length of years. I. Watts.

lthough perhaps not intended to be such. Mozley & W. -- Pious fraud (Ch. Hist.), a fraud contrived and executed to benefit the church or accomplish some good end, upon the theory that the end justified the means. -- Statute of frauds (Law), an English statute (1676), the principle of which is incorporated in the legi…

To make up; to devise; to contrive; to fabricate. Fudged up into such a smirkish liveliness. N. Fairfax.

One who contrives, makes, or arranges for, anything, as a book, a machine, etc. [Colloq.] A diligent getter-up of miscellaneous works. W. Irving.

To contrive or plot; to form by meditation, and bring into being; to originate and produce; to concoct; as, to hatch mischief; to hatch heresy. Hooker. Fancies hatched In silken-folded idleness. Tennyson.

One who contrives or originates; a plotter. A great hatcher and breeder of business. Swift.

Loaded dice so contrived as to turn up high numbers. [Obs] Sir J. Harrington.

A chimney top, often contrived to secure a constant draught by turning with the wind.

An imposition under fair pretenses; something contrived in order to deceive and mislead; a trick by cajolery; a hoax.

To contrive in purpose; to scheme; to devise; to compass; to purpose. See Compass, v. t., 5. How long will ye imagine mischief against a man Ps. lxii. 3.

One who forms ideas or conceptions; one who contrives. Bacon.

ment, grave, or ornament; wanting in anything which correct taste requires. What order so contrived as not to mix Tastes, not well joined, inelegant. Milton. It renders style often obscure, always embarrassed and inelegant. Blair.

To invent; to contrive. [Obs.] Daniel.

f 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. A man . . . very wise and ingenious in feats of war. Hakluyt. Thou, king, send out For torturers ingenious. Shak. The more ingenious men are, the more apt a…

s; ingeniousness; skill in devising or combining. All the means which human ingenuity has contrived. Blair.

To form a plot or scheme; to contrive to accomplish a purpose by secret artifice.

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. Thus first Necessity invented stools. Cowper.

One who invents or finds out something new; a contriver; especially, one who invents mechanical devices.