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SCHEME, n. [L. schema; Gr. from a contracted word, probably from to have or hold.]

1. A plan; a combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

We shall never be able to give ourselves a satisfactory account of the divine conduct without forming such a scheme of things as shall take in time and eternity.

2. A project; a contrivance; a plan of something to be done; a design. Thus we say, to form a scheme, to lay a scheme, to contrive a scheme.

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes.

3. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies; any lineal or mathematical diagram.

SCHEME, v.t. To plan; to contrive.

SCHEME, v.i. To form a plan; to contrive.

1913 Definition
Scheme (scheme)
n.(?)
Scheme
[L. schema a rhetorical figure, a shape, figure, manner, Gr. (?), (?), form, shape, outline, plan, fr. (?), (?), to have or hold, to hold out, sustain, check, stop; cf. Skr. sah to be victorious, to endure, to hold
  1. A combination of things connected and adjusted by design; a system.

    The appearance and outward scheme of things. Locke.

    Such a scheme of things as shall at once take in time and eternity. Atterbury.

    Arguments . . . sufficient to support and demonstrate a whole scheme of moral philosophy. J. Edwards.

    The Revolution came and changed his whole scheme of life. Macaulay.

  2. A plan or theory something to be done; a design; a project; as, to form a scheme.

    The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet when we want shoes. Swift.

  3. Any lineal or mathematical diagram; an outline.

    To draw an exact scheme of Constantinople, or a map of France. South.

  4. A representation of the aspects of the celestial bodies for any moment or at a given event.

    A blue silk case, from which was drawn a scheme of nativity. Sir W. Scott.

    Syn. -- Plan; project; contrivance; purpose; device; plot. -- Scheme, Plan. Scheme and plan are subordinate to design; they propose modes of carrying our designs into effect. Scheme is the least definite of the two, and lies more in speculation. A plan is drawn out into details with a view to being carried into effect. As schemes are speculative, they often prove visionary; hence the opprobrious use of the words schemer and scheming. Plans, being more practical, are more frequently carried into effect.

    He forms the well-concerted scheme of mischief;
    'T is fixed, 't is done, and both are doomed to death.     Rowe.

    Artists and plans relieved my solemn hours;
    I founded palaces, and planted bowers.     Prior.

  5. To make a scheme of] to plan; to design; to project; to plot.

    That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction. G. Stuart.

  6. To form a scheme or schemes.
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