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