most contrivable

verb (used with object)

to plan with ingenuity; devise; invent: The author contrived a clever plot.

to bring about or effect by a plan, scheme, or the like; manage: He contrived to gain their votes.

to plot (evil, treachery, etc.).

verb (used without object)

to form designs; plan.

to plot.

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Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English contreven < Middle French contreuv-, tonic stem of controver to devise, invent, Old French: to decide, agree upon < Late Latin contropāre to compare, equivalent to con- con- + *tropāre (> French trouver to find; see trover); development of vowel unclear

Related forms

con·triv·a·ble, adjective

con·triv·er, noun

pre·con·trive, verb, pre·con·trived, pre·con·triv·ing.

un·con·triv·ing, adjective

Synonyms
1. design, concoct. See prepare. 3. conspire, scheme. 5. connive.

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contrive (kənˈtraɪv)

—vb
1.	(tr) to manage (something or to do something), esp by means of a trick; engineer: he contrived to make them meet
2.	(tr) to think up or adapt ingeniously or elaborately: he contrived a new mast for the boat
3.	to plot or scheme (treachery, evil, etc)

[C14: from Old French controver, from Late Latin contropāre to represent by figures of speech, compare, from Latin com- together + tropus figure of speech, trope]

con'trivable

—*adj*

con'triver

—n

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contrive

early 14c., from O.Fr. controver "to find out, contrive, imagine," from V.L. contropare "to compare" (via a figure of speech), from L. com- "with" + tropus "song, musical mode," from Gk. tropos "figure of speech" (see trope). Sense evolution (in French) was from "invent with

ingenuity" to "invent falsely." Related: Contrived (c.1400); contriving (early 14c.); contrivance (1620s).

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