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Government is a contrivance of human wisdom
to provide for human wants.

Burke.

Syn. -- Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine;
project; design; artifice; shift. See Device.

Con*trive" (k&obreve;n*trīv"), 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.

Con*trive", v. i. To make
devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.


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