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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1913
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.