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Definition of Contrive
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Contrive
To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan. To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot. Related Definitions:
An, By, Design, Devise, Exercise, Form, Ingenuity, Invent, Make, Of, Plan, Plot, Scheme, To |
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Contrive Quotations
War should be the only study of a prince. He should consider peace only as a breathing-time, which gives him leisure to contrive, and furnishes as ability to execute, military plans. Niccolo Machiavelli I don't think you can contrive any sound. George Shearing When we arrived in London, my sadness at leaving Paris was turned into despair. After my long stay in the French capital, huge, ponderous, massive London seemed to me as ugly a thing as man could contrive to make. James Weldon Johnson The Chinese, by their favourite system of dwarfing, contrive to make it, when only a foot and a half or two feet high, have all the characters of an aged cedar of Lebanon. Robert Fortune We have seen Indians in immense numbers, and all those on this coast of the Pacific contrive to make a good subsistence on various seeds, and by fishing. Junipero Serra |
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Contrive Translations
contrive in German is erfinden contrive in Latin is fingo-finxi-fictum, molior, incogito |
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