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contrived, ppl. a.|kənˈtraɪvd|
[f. contrive v.1 + -ed1.]
Ingeniously or artfully devised or planned.
c1400Sowdone Bab. 333 The firste warde thus thay wonne By this fals contrevede engyne. 1513Douglas æneis xi. viii. 73 His dreid and sle controvit [1553 contruwit] feir. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iv. i. 171 The guilt of premeditated and contriued Murther. 1641Milton Animadv. (1851) 203 As insufficiently..did they provide by their contrived Liturgies. 1749Fielding Tom Jones xiii. vii, Don't you consider this contrived interview as little better than a downright assignation?
b. With qualification, as ill-contrived.
1632Lithgow Trav. iv. (1682) 135 A loathsom contrived place. 1664Butler Hud. ii. iii. 400 In Mansion prudently contriv'd. 1713Ockley Acct. Barbary 2 The Houses are large, but very ill contriv'd. 1760–72tr. Juan & Ulloa's Voy. (ed. 3) II. vii. xii. 130 Most of the houses are of stone, well contrived. |