All 3 Uses of

contrived
in
Ulysses, by James Joyce

Nevertheless, without going into the minutiae of the business, the eloquent fact remained that the sea was there in all its glory and in the natural course of things somebody or other had to sail on it and fly in the face of providence though it merely went to show how people usually contrived to load that sort of onus on to the other fellow like the hell idea and the lottery and insurance which were run on identically the same lines so that for that very reason if no other lifeboat Sunday was a highly laudable institution to which the public at large, no matter where living inland or seaside, as the case might be, having it brought home to them like that should extend its gratitude also to†
Chpt 16

contrived = unnatural or arranged

—Couldn't, Stephen contrived to get out, his mental organs for the moment refusing to dictate further.†
Chpt 16 *

He drank needless to be told and it pointed only once more a moral when he might quite easily be in a large way of business if—a big if, however—he had contrived to cure himself of his particular partiality.†
Chpt 16

Definition:

unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)

or more rarely:

arranged (that something should happen)