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English
Etymology
From contrive + -er.
Noun
contriver (plural contrivers)
- A person who contrives.
- Synonyms: creator, inventer, planner, plotter, schemer
c. 1598–1600 (date written), William Shakespeare, “As You Like It”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies (First Folio), London: Isaac Iaggard, and Ed Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, :I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.
1726 October 28, , Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World. , London: Benj Motte, , →OCLC, (please specify |part=I to IV), page 274: those desctructive Machines, whereof he said, some evil Genius, Enemy to Mankind, must have been the first Contriver.
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1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, published 2015, Part 2, Chapter 3:They had toured the world together with their Soirée of Illusions, combining his art as a public performer with her skill as a technician, a contriver of magical apparatus, and her artistic taste, which was far beyond his own.