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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.

[Obs.]

Consider the admirable

contrivement

and artifice of this great fabric.

Glanvill.

Active to meet their

contrivements

Sir G. Buck.

Noun.

Contrivance; invention.

contrivement ‎(plural contrivements)

(obsolete) contrivance; invention; arrangement or plan

Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of this great fabric. — Glanvill.

Active to meet their contrivements. — Sir G. Buck.