schemen.[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 out, AS. sige victory, G. sieg. Cf. Epoch, Hectic, School.]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. (Astrol.) 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.)()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.)v. t. To make a scheme of; to plan; to design; to project; to plot.()That wickedness which schemed, and executed, his destruction. (G. Stuart.)v. i. To form a scheme or schemes.()