invenire: reperire (invent; SYN. in FIND): excogitare (think out; contrive as the result of thought): comminisci (devise, contrive, mostly in a bad sense; not used of material objects): machinari (to contrive artificial means; if against a person. in a bad sense; but also used of the contrivances of nature): moliri (something requiring great exertion, extensive combinations, etc., mostly in a bad sense, aliquid mali, insidias or periculum alicui): facere or efficere (to contrive to do anything; with ut, which, in short sentences with facere, is often omitted). Contrive to let me know, facito, ut sciam (Cic.): contrive to be at home, domi assitis facite: he contrived to get a surplus revenue, effecit, ut ex vectigalibus superesset pecunia, quae in aerario reponeretur (Nep.). I contrived to get the first place in the affections of them both, effeci, ut neutri illorum quisquam esset me carior (Cic.): to contrive a plan for anybody’s destruction, ad perniciem alicujus aliquid cogitare (Nep., Dat., 6, 8): to contrive crafty devices, dolos nectere (Liv.), procudere (Plaut.).