contrivance
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contrivance noun. E17.
[from CONTRIVE verb1 + -ANCE.]
A thing contrived as a means to an end; an expedient, a stratagem; a trick. E17.
J. Buchan A clumsy contrivance to persuade me that I was unsuspected.
b. A device, an arrangement, an invention. Freq. derog. M17.
P. G. Wodehouse One of those silk contrivances..which you tie round your waist instead of a waistcoat.
a. The action of contriving or ingeniously bringing about; machination (in a bad sense), trickery. M17.
M. Elphinstone He escaped..by the contrivance of his mother.
b. Arrangement of parts according to a plan; design. L17.
T. Reid The marks of good contrivance which appear in the works of God.
Inventive capacity. M17.
The way in which an object etc. is contrived. M17-M19.