Both Uses of
contrived
in
As You Like It
- 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: therefore use thy discretion: I had as lief thou didst break his neck as his finger.†
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- Was't you that did so oft contrive to kill him?†
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Definition:
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(contrived) unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)