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Webster's 1828 Dictionary
CONTRIVEMENT
n.
Contrivance;
invention.
Webster's 1913 Dictionary
CONTRIVEMENT
CONTRIVEMENT
Con
*trive "
ment,
n.
Defn:
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.