CONTRIVANCES

Noun

contrivances

plural of contrivance

Source: Wiktionary

CONTRIVANCE

Con*triv"ance, n.

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; atrifice; arrangement. Government is a contrivance of human wisdom to provide for human wants. Burke.

Syn.

– Device; plan; scheme; invention; machine; project; design; artifice; shift. See Device.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition