transitive. With infinitive or that-clause as object. To arrange in advance; to prepare; to plan. Cf. provide, v. 5. Obsolete.

intransitive. Originally: to form an intention or design. Later more generally: to propose a course of action; to make proposals. Contrasted with di…

To machinate, contrive, devise, scheme. intransitive. Const. with infinitive (or clause). Obsolete.

intransitive. To act for a specified purpose, or so as to achieve a specified end; to plan, plot; to contrive, manage. Chiefly with to-infinitive or…

intransitive. To have a purpose, plan, or design; esp. in the proverbial phrase man purposes, God disposes (dispose, v. 7a; cf. also man proposes, (bu…

To order, appoint, or arrange the plan or design of; to plan, contrive, think out, frame, invent. absol. or with clause: To contrive, plan (that…, how…

intransitive. To cast about, plan, plot.

intransitive. To form a plan or plot, esp. for a crime or conspiracy; to scheme, lay plans, contrive, conspire, esp. in secret. Also transitive with…

intransitive. Apparently: to plan, plot.

To plan, contrive, scheme. intransitive. To form a plan, design, or project; to scheme for something. Obsolete.

A plan, design; a programme of action; the designed scope and method of an undertaking or a literary work, etc. Phrases, to†cast, lay a scheme.

intransitive. To make plans; to make provision for.

intransitive. colloquial. to plan on: to intend to carry out (some action); to anticipate or be prepared for.