Definition of "contrives" [contrives]

• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of contrive. (verb)

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• "If, on the other hand, you're capable of making sense of such postwar English novels as, say, Kingsley Amis's "Lucky Jim," then you'll have a pretty good idea of what's going on, and Mr. Gold's direction is so passionately precise that it contrives to make most of the rough places plain enough."
• "What ever man contrives or devises is an artifice, a thing of art not of nature, and therefore artificial."
• "We left Rob well and I calld on Mr Evans, now Doctor Evans, who is totally lame from his chest downwards, yet he contrives to perform the duties of his school, and the duties of the pulpit too."