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Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Contrivement

· Con·trive·ment · IPA
01 n. Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
  1. 1.
    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.