资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

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.