>Bill,
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>>Yeah, Cindy already yanked out Webster on me. Duh. Never dawned on me to look there. For some obscure reason I thought the word was contrived.
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>Many contrived words eventually end up in the dictionary. It's full of 'em. :-)

Understood. In this case the word is, of course, not contrived and it reminded me to be more thorough in checking things out instead of making assumptions. Good lesson.