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contriver

[ UK /kəntɹˈa‍ɪvɐ/ ]
NOUN
  1. a person who makes plans

How To Use contriver In A Sentence

  • That other machine may, in like manner, have proceeded from a former machine: nor does that alter the case; the contrivance must have had a contriver.
  • January 6th, 2006 at 8: 40 pm click says: contriver: anatomically devise tributes: fertilized Lowell. speedups Think Progress » EU wants answers on secret prisons.
  • In this place, the ingenuity of the contriver and disposer of the walks had exerted itself to make the most of little space, and by screens, both of stone ornamented with rude sculpture, and hedges of living green, had endeavoured to give as much intricacy and variety as the confined limits of the garden would admit. The Abbot
  • Very true, of course, but that a man as intelligent as him, a master contriver of logic games and word puzzles, could have so misunderstood the crux of the play is amazing.
  • So, my dear, it comes out, that I myself was obliged to this deep contriver. Clarissa Harlowe
  • Indeed the world, let me escape whither, and to whomsoever I could, would conclude him to be the contriver of it. Clarissa Harlowe
  • Besides being a fascinating interpreter of classical philosophical texts, as well as a surprising contriver of strings of verbal associations, Heidegger was an indispensable guide to the present. Archive 2009-01-01
  • As his secretary later wrote: ‘in matters of counsel, nothing for the most part was done without him, for that nothing was thought well done whereof he was not the contriver and director.’
  • 'There is another deity,' continued Har, 'reckoned in the number of the Æsir, whom some call the calumniator of the gods, the contriver of all fraud and mischief, and the disgrace of gods and men. Ten Great Religions An Essay in Comparative Theology
  • There is another deity who is described as the calumniator of the gods and the contriver of all fraud and mischief. The Age of Fable
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