different between contriver vs enginer

English

Etymology

contrive +? -er

Noun

contriver (plural contrivers)

1. A person who contrives.

   Synonyms: creator, inventer, planner, plotter, schemer

   • c. 1599, William Shakespeare, As You Like It, Act I, Scene 1,^[1]

     I’ll tell thee, Charles, it is the stubbornest young fellow of France; full of ambition, an envious emulator of every man’s good parts, a secret and villainous contriver against me his natural brother.

   • 1726, Jonathan Swift, Gulliver’s Travels, London: Benjamin Motte, Volume 1, Part 2, Chapter 7, p. 274,^[2]

     […] those desctructive Machines, whereof he said, some evil Genius, Enemy to Mankind, must have been the first Contriver.

   • 1818, Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey, Chapter 14, in Northanger Abbey: and Persuasion, London: John Murray, Volume 2, p. 278,^[3]

     A heroine returning, at the close of her career, to her native village, in all the triumph of recovered reputation, and all the dignity of a countess […] is an event on which the pen of the contriver may well delight to dwell;

   • 1975, Robertson Davies, World of Wonders, Toronto: McClelland & Stewart, 2015, Part 2, Chapter 3,^[4]

     They had toured the world together with their Soirée of Illusions, combining his art as a public performer with her skill as a technician, a contriver of magical apparatus, and her artistic taste, which was far beyond his own.

English

Etymology

From engine +? -er. See engineer.

Noun

enginer (plural enginers)

1. (obsolete) A contriver; an inventor; one who makes engines.
2. Misspelling of engineer.

References

Anagrams

• ingener

Old French

Verb

enginer

1. (Anglo-Norman) Alternative form of engignier

Conjugation

This verb conjugates as a first-group verb ending in -er. Old French conjugation varies significantly by date and by region. The following conjugation should be treated as a guide.