Contrived, cunningly or artfully devised. Obsolete.

Ingeniously or artfully devised or planned.

Invented, created in the imagination; planned, designed. In later use only with adverbs of quality, chiefly as the second element in compounds, as i…

Calculated, planned. Obsolete.

Planned, contrived, invented, feigned, etc.: see the verb.

Planned; premeditated; prearranged by means of or as part of a plot.

Put forth as a project; planned, devised.

See brew, v. 4.

In various senses of the verb. †Of a design: Deliberately framed. laid drain n. (see quot. 1811). laid paper n. (see quot. 1839). laid wool n. tarry…

Chiefly as past participle. Fitted, suited, fit, apt; of a nature or character proper or likely to.

Designed, projected, or arranged in accordance with a plan; that is the result of a plan or planning.

(un-, prefix1 affix 1.)

Laid out in a programme of action, events, etc.; planned; scheduled; set to happen.

Of or relating to arrangement, esp. the arrangement of procedure with a view to ends.

= programmatic, adj.

Relating to or of the nature of a programme; that sets out a programme; (now also) of or relating to a computer program.