transitive. To consider or think out beforehand, contrive, plan. Obsolete.

To devise, contrive, plan, arrange. Obsolete.

To contrive, devise, machinate (a purpose). Usually in a bad sense: see quots. 1292 1491

transitive. To invent, devise, excogitate with ingenuity and cleverness (any plan or purpose).

To plan, devise, contrive; to design or intend for; to cause to be made. transitive. Of a physical object or structure. In later use regional.

To contrive, devise, plan, plot.

transitive. To conceive in the mind as a thing to be performed; to devise, plot, plan. †Also with infinitive. †Also intransitive: to plot against…

To machinate, contrive, devise, scheme. transitive. To contrive or devise (an action, etc.).

To plan, devise, contrive; to design or intend for; to cause to be made. transitive. Of an immaterial or abstract thing. Obsolete.

transitive. To contrive, devise; to make (something) one's goal or purpose, to plan. In later use usually with infinitive as object. Obsolete.

transitive. To contrive or scheme beforehand; to arrange or plan before execution; to foreordain, predestine.

To form a mental image of. transitive. With something to be executed as object: to devise, plan. Obsolete.

To plan, devise, contrive; to design or intend for; to cause to be made. transitive. With clause as object, or with infinitive. In later use Englis…

To plan, contrive, scheme. transitive. To devise or design (an action, proceeding, scheme, or undertaking); to form a project of.

transitive. To contemplate or intend beforehand.

To find out or produce by mental activity. To devise, contrive; to plan, plot. Obsolete.

transitive. To devise, arrange; to plan, plot. Obsolete.

transitive. To devise means to bring about (a result), to devise (the means to an outcome); to plan, scheme, intend. Frequently with infinitive or…

transitive. To plan or devise (a scheme, project, etc.). to plat forth: to sketch out a plan of (something to be made). Obsolete.

transitive. = contrive, v.1

To plan by turning over in the mind; to conceive or design mentally. transitive. Without construction. Occasionally intransitive.

transitive. To design, sketch, plan. Obsolete. rare.

To plan, contrive, or devise (something to be carried out or accomplished, esp. a crime or conspiracy)… transitive. With simple object.

transitive. To plan, outline, sketch; to draw up a scheme of. Obsolete.

transitive. To form a plan or scheme of; to conceive and arrange in the mind; to plan out mentally, contrive. Now rare.

figurative and transferred in many applications. in reference to plans, etc.: To meditate, devise or plan deliberately.

To lay down or plan beforehand; to pre-arrange; with both material and immaterial objs. Obsolete exc. dialect.

transitive. Originally: †to record in minute detail, as if on a map (obsolete). Later: to plan or project; to envisage or outline; to describe or…

figurative. To plan; to prepare (work to be done). to have (all) one's work cut out: see work, n. phrases 2a.

transitive. To be busy with (mentally), consider on all sides, revolve in the mind (as a plan to be executed); to contrive busily. Now rare.

gen. To contrive, arrange. Obsolete.

transitive. To plot, plan.

figurative. To make ready, prepare, plan; = to cut out 12 at phrasal verbs. Obsolete.

To plan or devise with forethought; to think out; to frame. archaic.

transitive. Of a single person: to plan, devise, arrange. Obsolete.

transitive. To reduce to a scheme or formula. Also, to scheme out: to plan methodically. rare.

transitive. To arrange in advance (an action or proposed proceeding); to devise, contrive, or formulate (a project or manner of proceeding); to lay…

transitive. To plan, machinate. Obsolete. rare.

transitive. To shape or cut out roughly; to plan or sketch out roughly.

To plan or map out; to set as a task or duty.

transitive. With infinitive: to intend or propose to do something.

To give a direction and character to (one's life, conduct, etc.).

transitive. To arrange by or according to a programme; to include or name in a programme; to draw up a scheme or itinerary of; to plan or schedule…

Used for compass, v.1 2.

To plan or schedule (something) to attain an objective. Chiefly in Economics.