Definition of Contrive

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Definition of Contrive
	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

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

A heart to resolve, a head to contrive, and a hand to execute.
Edward Gibbon

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

The actual writing of a song usually comes in the form of a realisation. I can't contrive a song.
Gene Clark

Contrive Translations

contrive in German is erfinden
contrive in Latin is fingo-finxi-fictum, molior, incogito

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