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Syn. -- repentance; penitence; humiliation; compunction; self-reproach; remorse. -- Contrition, Attrition, repentance. -- Contrition is deep sorrow and self-condemnation, with through repetance for sin because it is displeasing to God, and implies a feeling of love toward God. Attrition is sorrow for sin, or imperfect repentance produced by fear of punishment or a sense of the baseness of sin. Repentance is a penitent renunciation of, and turning from, sin; thorough repentance produces a new life. Repentance is often used as synonymous with contrition. See Compunction.

Con*trit"u*rate (?; 135), v. t. To triturate; to pulverize. [R.]

Con*triv"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.

A perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable. Bp. Wilkins.

Con*triv"ance (?), n. 1. The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.

The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, contrivance and design. Contrivance must have had a contriver. Paley.

2. The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; artifice; arrangement.

Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

Syn. -- Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See Device.

Con*trive" (k&obreve;n*trīv"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Contrived (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Contriving.] [OE. contriven, contreven, controven, to invent, OF. controver, contruver; con- + trouver to find. See Troubadour, trover.] To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.

What more likely to contrive this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. Tillotson.

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

Syn. -- To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot; concert; hatch.

Con*trive", v. i. To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.

The Fates with traitors do contrive. Shak.

Thou hast contrived against th very life Of the defendant. Shak.

Con*trive"ment (?), n. Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.]

Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill.

Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.

Con*triv"er (?), n. One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.

Con*trol" (?), n. [F. contr˘le a counter register, contr. fr. contr- r˘le; contre (L. contra) + r˘le roll, catalogue. See Counter and Roll, and cf. Counterroll.] 1. A duplicate book, register, or account, kept to correct or check another account or register; a counter register. [Obs.] Johnson.

2. That which serves to check, restrain, or hinder; restraint. "Speak without control." Dryden.

3. Power or authority to check or restrain; restraining or regulating influence; superintendence; government; as, children should be under parental control.

The House of Commons should exercise a control over all the departments of the executive administration. Macaulay.

Board of control. See under Board.

Con*trol", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Controlled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Controlling.] [F. contr˘ler, fr. contr˘le.] [Formerly written comptrol and controul.] 1. To check by a counter register or duplicate account; to prove by counter statements; to confute. [Obs.]

This report was controlled to be false. Fuller.

2. To exercise restraining or governing influence over; to check; to counteract; to restrain; to regulate; to govern; to overpower.