单词 | contrived |
释义 | contrivedadj. a. Ingeniously or artfully devised or planned. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > planned compassedc1430 contrivedc1450 imagined1509 castc1540 devised1552 plotted1592 projected1630 brewed1637 forelaid1640 laid1697 calculated1723 planned1728 unspontaneous1791 programmed1845 tactical1876 drafted1877 programmatical1890 programmatic1899 c1450 (c1400) Sowdon of Babylon (1881) l. 333 The firste warde thus thay wonne By this fals contrevede engyne. a1522 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid (1960) xi. viii. 73 Hys dreid and sle controvit [1553 contruwit] feir. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iv. i. 161 The guilt of premeditated and contriued Murther. 1641 J. Milton Animadversions 20 As insufficiently..did they provide by their contrived Liturgies. 1749 H. Fielding Tom Jones V. xiii. vii. 62 Don't you consider this contrived Interview as little better than a downright Assignation? View more context for this quotation b. With qualification, as ill-contrived. ΘΚΠ the mind > will > intention > planning > [adjective] > planned > well or badly well-deviseda1425 well-laid1533 well-calculated1593 well-laid1595 well-designed1624 best-laida1626 ill-contrived1632 well-planned1728 well-schemed1728 set piece1947 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) iv. 135 A loathsom contrived place. 1664 S. Butler Hudibras: Second Pt. ii. iii. 160 In Mansion prudently contriv'd. 1713 Acct. South-west Barbary 2 The Houses are large, but very ill contriv'd. 1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) II. vii. xii. 130 Most of the houses are of stone, well contrived. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2019). < |
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