contrivition

English

Noun

contrivition (plural contrivitions)

1. (obsolete) contrivance
   • 1600, author unknown, A contract for building the Fortune Theatre at the cost of £440, quoted in Wilson

     And the said house, and other things before-mentioned, to be made and done, to be in all other contrivitions, conveyances, fashions, thing and things effected, finished and done, according to the manner and fashion of the said house called the Globe […]

References

• 1949, John Dover Wilson (compiler), Life in Shakespeare's England. A Book of Elizabethan Prose, Cambridge at the University Press. 1st ed. 1911, 2nd ed. 1913, 8th reprint. In Glossary and Notes. Quoted in plural (contrivitions)