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▪ I. contriving, vbl. n.|kənˈtraɪvɪŋ|
Also 4–6 controving.
[f. contrive v.1 + -ing1.]
The action of the verb contrive; contrivance; devising.
c1330R. Brunne Chron. (1810) 255 Of þat fals controueyng gaf þei jugement. 1393Gower Conf. III. 81 Of his owne controvinge He found magique and taught it forth. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abus. Ep. Ded. (1877) 6, I haue taken vpon me the contryuing of this book. 1751C. Labelye Westm. Br. 107 Methods of my own contriving. 1858Longfellow Birds of Passage, Children ix, What are all our contrivings, And the wisdom of our books?
▪ II. conˈtriving, ppl. a.
[f. as prec. + -ing2.]
That contrives; skilfully or artfully devising, scheming, inventive.
1606Shakes. Ant. & Cl. i. ii. 189 Our contriuing Friends in Rome. 1691Hartcliffe Virtues Pref. 15 Revenge is a busie and contriving Vice. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. 233 A thousand uses suggest themselves to a contriving mind. 1806–7J. Beresford Miseries Hum. Life (1826) ii. xxxiv, Jobs that require both a nice hand and a contriving head.
Hence conˈtrivingly adv.
1748Richardson Clarissa (1811) VI. 394 Wickedly and contrivingly, as my friends still think. |