All 3 Uses of
contrived
in
Cyrano de Bergerac
- (Bowing, with admiration, to Roxane): Cunningly contrived†
Act 3 *contrived = unnatural or arranged
- — When I thought of the good expedient To loosen and let fall the scarf which told My military rank; thus I contrived —Without attention waked—to leave the foes, And suddenly returning, reinforced With my own men, to scatter them!†
Act 4
- CHRISTIAN: But how did you contrive, since we have been cut off, thus...to?†
Act 4contrive = arrange
Definition:
unnatural seeming (due to careful planning)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)
or more rarely:
arranged (that something should happen)