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Contrivance

CONTRIVANCE, n. [See Contrive.]
1. The act of inventing, devising or planning.
There is no work impossible to these contrivances.
2. The thing invented or planned; a scheme; plan; disposition of parts or causes by design.
Our bodies are made according to the most orderly contrivance.
3. Artifice; plot; scheme.
He has managed his contrivance well.

 

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