Contrive

Webster's Practical Dictionary- A Practical Dictionary of the Englih Language · 1884 · p. 93

kon-triv', v.t. [-TKivEDGtrivd'X-TRivixG.] To form by exercise of ingenuity, devise, invent, plan, plot. — i'. i. To make devices, plan.— Contriv'er, re — Contriv'able, a.— Contriv'ance, re. Act of, etc.; thing contrived; an act of cunning; scheme invention; project; artifice; shift.