The Collaborative International Dictionary
Contrivement
Contrivement \Con*trive"ment\, n. Contrivance; invention; arrangement; design; plan. [Obs.]
Consider the admirable contrivement and artifice of
this great fabric.
--Glanvill.
Active to meet their contrivements.
--Sir G. Buck.
Wiktionary
contrivement
n. (context obsolete English) contrivance; invention; arrangement or plan