- Contrive - Form a plan - Invent - To form in the mind by new combinations of ideas, new
applications of principles, or new arrangement of parts; to formulate
by thought; to contrive; to excogitate; to invent; to plan; to scheme;
as, to devise an engine, a new mode of writing, a plan of defense, or
an argument. - To plan or scheme for; to purpose to obtain. - To say; to relate; to describe. - To imagine; to guess.