a. [f. CONTRIVE v.1 + -ABLE.] Capable of being contrived.
a. 1672. Wilkins, Dædalus, xv. (R.). It will hence appear, how a perpetual motion may seem easily contrivable.
1854. Ruskin, Two Paths, ii. 58. No machine yet contrived, or hereafter contrivable, will ever equal … the human fingers.
