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adlion again ft the hundred, the reft of the inhabitants 
fhall make contribution to the fame. 27 Eliz. c. 13. 
CONTRIBU'TIONE FAC 1 ENDA, a writ that lieth 
where there are tenants in common, that are bound to 
do one thing, and one is put to the whole burden ; as 
where they jointly hold a mill pro indivifo, and take the 
profits equally,. and the mill falling into decay, one of 
them will not repair the mill; now the other (hall have 
a writ to compel him to contribute to the reparations. 
And if there be three coparceners of land, thafowe fuit 
to the lord’s court, and the eldeft performs the whole ; 
then may (lie have this writ to compel the other to make 
their contribution. So where one fuit is required for 
land, and that land being fold to divers perfons, fuit is 
demanded of them all, or fome of them by diftreis, as 
entirely as if all the land were ftill in one. Reg.Orig. 175. 
F. N. B. 162. 
CONTRI'BUTIVE, adj. That which has the power 
or quality of promoting any purpofe in concurrence with 
other motives.—-As the value of the promifes renders 
them mod proper incentives to virtue, fo the manner of 
propofing we fir nil find alfo highly contributive to the fame 
end. D cay of Piety. 
CONTRIBUTOR, f. One that bears a part in fome 
common defign; one that helps forward, or exerts his 
endeavours to fome end, in conjunction with others.—• 
Art thou a true lover of thy country ? zealous for its reli¬ 
gious and civil liberties? and a cheerful contributor to all 
thofe public expences which have been thought necef- 
fary to fecure them ? Atterbuiy. 
CONTRIBUTORY, adj. Promoting the fame end; 
bringing affiftance to fome joint defign, or increafe to 
fome common ftock. 
To CONTRIS'TATE, v. a. fontrijlo, Lat.] To fad- 
den ; to make forrowful; to make melancholy. Not ufed. 
—-"Biacknefs and darknefs are but privatives, and there¬ 
fore have little or no activity: fo mew hat they do con- 
tridate, but very little. Bacon. 
CONTRISTA' riON, /. The aft of making fad; the 
ftate of being'made fad ; forrow ; heavinefs of heart; 
fadnefs ; forrovvfulnefs; gloonrinefs; grief; moan ; mourn¬ 
ful nefs; trouble; difcontent; melancholy. Not ufecl .— 
Incenfe and nidorous fmells, fuch as were of facrifrces, 
were thought to intoxicate the brain, and to difpofe men 
to devotion ; which they may do by a kind of fadnefs 
and contriftation of the fpirits, and partly alfo by heating 
and exalting them. Bacon. 
CONTRI'TE, adj. \_coiftritus, Lat.] Bruifed3 much 
worn. Worn with lorrow ; harraffed with the fenfe of 
guilt ; penitent. In the books of divines, contrite is'for¬ 
rowful for fin, from the love of God and defire of plead, 
inghim ; and attrite is forrowful for fin, from-the fear 
of .punilhment.—-The contrite finner is reftored to pardon, 
and, through faith in Chrift, our repentance is entitled 
to fulvation. Rogers. 
With tears 
Wat’ririg the ground, and with our fighs the air - 
Frequenting, lent from hearts contrite, in fign 
Of forrbw unfeign’d, and humiliation meek. Milton. 
CONTRI'TENESS, f. Contrition; repentance. 
CONTRI'TION, [.• The adt of grinding, or rubbing 
to powder.'—Some of thofe coloured powders, \yjuch 
painters ufe, may have their colours a little changed, by 
being very elaborately and finely ground ; where I fee 
not what can be jtiftly pretended for thofe changes, be- 
fides the breaking, of their parts into lefs parts by that 
contrition. Nezoton. —Penitence; forrow for fin: in the ftridt 
fenfe, the forrow which arifes from the defire to pleafe 
God; diftinguifhed from attrition, or imperfedt repent¬ 
ance produced by the dread of hell.—What is forrow 
and contrition for fin ? A being grieved with the confcience 
of fin, not only that we have thereby incurred fuch dan¬ 
ger, but alfo that we have fo unkindly grieved and pro¬ 
voked fo good a God. Hammond, 
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My future days (hall be one whole contrition ; 
A chapel will I build wdth large endowment, 
Where every day an hundred aged men 
Shall all hold up the'r wither’d hands to heav’n. Dryden. 
CONTRIVABLE, adj. PofTible tq be planned by 
the mind; poflible to be invented and adjufted.—It will 
hence appear how a perpetual motion may feem eafily 
contrivablc. Wilkins. 
CONTRIVANCE,/ The aft of contriving; exco¬ 
gitation ; the thing contrived.-—There is no work impod 
fible to thefe contrivances, but there may be as much acted 
by this art as can be fancied by imagination. Wilkins. 
Inftructed, you’ll explore 
Divine contrivance, and a God adore. Blackmore. 
Scheme.; plan; difpofition of parts or caufes.—Our bo¬ 
dies are made according to the moft curious artifice, and 
orderly contrivance. Glanville. —-A conceit ; a plot; an ar¬ 
tifice.—There might be a feint, a contrivance in the mat- 
ter, to draw him into fome fecret ambufh. Atterbury. 
Have I not manag’d my contrivance well, 
To try your love, and make you doubt of mine ? Dryden. 
To CONTRIVE, v. a. [_con.tr ouver, Fr.] To plan out; 
to excogitate.—What more likely to contrive this admi¬ 
rable frame of the univerfe than infinite wifdom?. Tillot- 
Jon. —To wear aw r ay. Out of ufe: 
Pleafe ye, we may contrive this afternoon, 
And quafi Caro ufe s to our miftrefs’ health. Shakefpcare. 
To CONTRIVE, v.n. To form or defign ; to plan; 
to fcheme ; to complot : 
The mafking habits, and a borrow’d name. 
Contrive to hide my plenitude of fname. Prior. 
.CONTRIVEMENT,/ Invention. 
CONTRIVER, f. An inventer; one that plans a de¬ 
fign ; a fchemer.—Scenes of blood and defolation, I had 
painted as the common effects of thofe deftruftive ma¬ 
chines ; whereof fome evil genius, enemy to mankind, 
muft have been the firft contriver. Gulliver's Travels. 
Plain loyalty, not built on hope, 
I leave to yaw- contriver. Pope : 
None loves his king and country better. 
Yet none was ever lefs their debtor. Swift. 
CONTRO'I., f. [controle, that is, contre role, Fr.] A 
regifter, or account kept by another officer, that each 
may be examined by the other. Check; reftraipt.—He 
(hall feel a force upon lrimfelf from within, and from 
the control' of his own principles, to engage him to do 
worthily. South. 
Let partial fpirits ftill aloud complain, 
Think themfelves injur’d that they cannot reign; 
And own no liberty, but where they may, 
Without control, upon their fellows prey. Waller. 
Power; authority; fuperintendance : 
The beads, the fifties, and the winged fowls, 
Are their males’ fubjedts, and at their controls. Shakfp. 
To CONTRO'L, v. a. To keep under check by a 
counter reckoning. To g'overn ; to reftrain ; to fubject.—• 
Who (hall control me for my works i Eccl. v. 3. 
Give me a ftaff of honour for mine age ; 
Bat not a fceptre to control the world. Shakefpcare. 
To overpower ; to confute : as, he controlled all.the evi¬ 
dence of his adverfary.—-As for the time while he was 
in the. Tower, and the manner of his brother’s death, 
and his own efcape, (he knew they were things that u 
very few could control. Bacon. 
CONTROL'LABLE, adj. Subject to control; fubjedfc 
to command; fubjedt to be over-ruled.—Paffion is the 
drunkennefs of the mind, and therefore, in its prelent 
workings, not controllable by reafon. South. 
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