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Definition of Contriver

Contriver
Contriver Con*triv"er, n. One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. --Swift.

Meaning of Contriver from wikipedia

- Contrive are a heavy metal band from Melbourne, Australia formed in 1999. Their musical style has been compared to that of Sepultura. The band consists...
- from the Latin ingenium, meaning "cleverness" and ingeniare, meaning "to contrive, devise". The American Engineers' Council for Professional Development...
- Belgium and The Netherlands) is derived from the Latin words ingeniare ("to contrive, devise") and ingenium ("cleverness"). The foundational qualifications...
- and Mrs. McCarthy s**** to prove his innocence, and Sergeant Goodfellow contrives his escape from the police station cell. A Jackdaw egg at the cottage...
- sanctuary south of the Ilissos river at Athens. Mêkhaneus (Μηχανευς; "Contriver") or Latinized Mechaneus Moiragetes (Μοιραγέτης; "Leader of the Fates"...
- after the war began, and they were accused of supporting British rule, "contrivers and authors of seditious publications" critical of the revolutionary cause...
- know that it's the 25th anniversary of anything, so it'd be absurd to contrive too many situations in which they're reflective on the past. The main engine...
- Hypotheses non fingo (Latin for "I frame no hypotheses", or "I contrive no hypotheses") is a phrase used by Isaac Newton in an essay, "General Scholium"...
- the strike (also shepherd the strike or farm the bowling) of a batter, contrive to receive the majority of the balls bowled, usually because they are the...
- existence herding goats in the middle of the Saudi desert. In the end, Najeeb contrives a hazardous scheme to escape his desert prison. Penguin Books India's...