Verb

(en verb)

(label) To command, rule over; to possess or own.

*, Bk.V, Ch.7:

*:There was never kyng sauff myselff that welded evir such knyghtes.

(label) To control, to guide or manage.

*1596 , (Edmund Spenser), The Faerie Queene , V.10:

*:With such his chearefull speaches he doth wield / Her mind so well, that to his will she bends.

To handle with skill and ease, especially of a weapon or tool.

To exercise (authority or influence) effectively.

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)

, chapter=10 citation , passage=With a little manœuvring they contrived to meet on the doorstep which was […] in a boiling stream of passers-by, hurrying business people speeding past in a flurry of fumes and dust in the bright haze.}}

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

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