Word Meanings - PRECONTRIVE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To contrive or plan beforehand.

CONTRIVER
One who contrives, devises, plans, or schemas. Swift.
CONTRIVE
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.
BEFOREHAND
1. In a state of anticipation ore preoccupation; in advance; -- often followed by with. Agricola . . . resolves to be beforehand with the danger. Milton. The last cited author has been beforehand with me. Addison. 2. By way of preparation,
CONTRIVEMENT
Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. Glanvill. Active to meet their contrivements. Sir G. Buck.
PRECONTRIVE
To contrive or plan beforehand.