Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Contrivance; invention; plan; device; scheme.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan.
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- noun obsolete
contrivance ;invention ;arrangement orplan
Etymologies
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Examples
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Thus by cunning contrivement hath Mopsa the old Witch proved the true from the false, the gold from the dross; thou, my lady, hast proved thy love indeed, and thou,
The Geste of Duke Jocelyn Jeffery Farnol 1915
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Then saw he the worthiest monument in the world for a church, named St. Anthony's Cloister, which for the pinnacles thereof and the contrivement of the church, hath not the like in
Mediaeval Tales Henry Morley 1858
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The king having spent some hours in the perusal of it, and demanding many questions was occasion as, concerning the contrivement, and having received answers to all he demanded, at length said, 'It was only _a jewel for a
Bibliomania; or Book-Madness A Bibliographical Romance Thomas Frognall Dibdin 1811
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All the contrivement of their thoughts Is upon mifchief bent.
The Psalms of King David Paraphrased, and Turned Into English Verse, According to the Common ... 1668
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