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: .

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.

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

To plan; to contrive.

To form a plan; to contrive.