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Webster 1913 Edition
Contrivance
Con-triv′ance
,Noun.
1.
The act or faculty of contriving, inventing, devising, or planning.
The machine which we are inspecting demonstrates, by its construction,
contrivance
and design. Contrivance
must have had a contriver. Paley.
2.
The thing contrived, invented, or planned; disposition of parts or causes by design; a scheme; plan; artifice; arrangement.
Syn. – Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See
Device
. Webster 1828 Edition
Contrivance
CONTRIVANCE
,Noun.
1.
The act of inventing, devising or planning. There is no work impossible to these contrivances.
2.
The thing invented or planned; a scheme; plan; disposition of parts or causes by design.Our bodies are made according to the most orderly contrivance.
3.
Artifice; plot; scheme.He has managed his contrivance well.