Part 2370

<blockquote>My future days shall be one whole <b>contrition</b>. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- repentance; penitence; humiliation; compunction; self-reproach; remorse.</syn> <usage> -- <er>Contrition</er>, <er>Attrition</er>, <er>repentance</er>. -- <i>Contrition</i> 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. <i>Attrition</i> is sorrow for sin, or imperfect repentance produced by fear of punishment or a sense of the baseness of sin. <i>Repentance</i> is a penitent renunciation of, and turning from, sin; thorough repentance produces a new life. <i>Repentance</i> is often used as synonymous with <i>contrition</i>. See <er>Compunction</er>.</usage>

<h1>Contriturate</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trit"u*rate</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To triturate; to pulverize.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<h1>Contrivble</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*triv"*ble</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Capable of being contrived, planned, invented, or devised.</def>

<blockquote>A perpetual motion may seem easily <b>contrivable</b>. <i>Bp. Wilkins.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Contrivance</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*triv"ance</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.</def>

<blockquote>The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction, <b>contrivance</b> and design. <b>Contrivance</b> must have had a contriver. <i>Paley.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; atrifice; arrangement.</def>

<blockquote>Government is a <b>contrivance</b> of human wisdom to provide for human wants. <i>Burke.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See <er>Device</er>.</syn>

<h1>Contrive</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trive"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p.p.</tt> <er>Contrived</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p.pr. & vb.n.</tt> <er>Contriving</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OE. <ets>contriven</ets>, <ets>contreven</ets>, <ets>controven</ets>, to invent, OF. <ets>controver</ets>, <ets>contruver</ets>; <ets>con-</ets> + <ets>trouver</ets> to find. See <er>Troubadour</er>, <er>trover</er>.]</ety> <def>To form by an exercise of ingenuity; to devise; to invent; to design; to plan.</def>

<blockquote>What more likely to <b>contrive</b> this admirable frame of the universe than infinite wisdom. <i>Tillotson.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>neither do thou imagine that I shall <b>contrive</b> aught against his life. <i>Hawthorne.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- To invent; discover; plan; design; project; plot; concert; hatch.</syn>

<h1>Contrive</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trive"</hw>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To make devices; to form designs; to plan; to scheme; to plot.</def>

<blockquote>The Fates with traitors do <b>contrive</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Thou hast <b>contrived</b> against th very life Of the defendant. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Contrivement</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*trive"ment</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Consider the admirable <b>contrivement</b> and artifice of this great fabric. <i>Glanvill.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>Active to meet their <b>contrivements</b>. <i>Sir G. Buck.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Contriver</h1> <Xpage=316>

<hw>Con*triv"er</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas.</def>