Verb

(contriv)

To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

* Hawthorne

Neither do thou imagine that I shall contrive aught against his life.

* 1813 , Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice , Modern Library Edition (1995), page 154

I cannot bear the idea of two young women traveling post by themselves. It is highly improper. You must contrive to send somebody.

* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham), title=(The China Governess)

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To invent, to make devices; to form designs especially by improvisation.

To project, cast, or set forth, as in a projection of light.

Verb

(excogitat)

To think over something carefully; to consider fully; cogitate.

* 2007': Did he ponder the harmony of the spheres? Certainly not: celestial spheres were first '''excogitated decades or more after Pythagoras' death. — MF Burnyeat, ‘Other Lives’, ''London Review of Books 29:4, p. 3

To come to a conclusion through reason or careful thought.

After many years of study, he excogitated a solution.

* Whewell

This evidence thus excogitated out of the general theory.