Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- That may be contrived; capable of being planned, invented, or devised.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.
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- adjective Capable of being
contrived , invented, or devised.
Etymologies
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Examples
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It is not a thing to be hired for money, nor contrivable on any wholesale plan.
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It is not a thing to be hired for money, nor contrivable on any wholesale plan.
Mankind in the Making Herbert George 1903
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Yet we can judge but what we discern; and certainly to the critical eye to-day it is the absence of a central tendency, the chaotic cultivation of all contrivable varieties of style, which most strikingly seems to distinguish the times we live in.
Victorian Songs Lyrics of the Affections and Nature Edmund Henry Garrett 1891
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Nothing contrivable by human invention could be more formidably effective than that, in banishing imaginary ailments and in closing the entrances against subsequent applicants of their breed.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872
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Why it is the most ludicrous spectacle, the most inconsistent and incongruous spectacle, contrivable by even the most diseased imagination.
The Man That Corrupted Hadleyburg and Other Stories Mark Twain 1872
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Nothing contrivable by human invention could be more formidably effective than that, in banishing imaginary ailments and in closing the entrances against sub-sequent applicants of their breed.
Christian Science Mark Twain 1872
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No machine yet contrived, or hereafter contrivable, will ever equal the fine machinery of the human fingers.
The Two Paths John Ruskin 1859
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_He_ might have some cast-metal hand or shoulder-crank (a thing easily contrivable in
Latter-Day Pamphlets Thomas Carlyle 1838
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