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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.