Contrivance vs Enginery - What's the difference?
contrivance | enginery |
a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task
a means, such as an elaborate plan or strategy, to accomplish a certain objective
* 2005 , .
something overly artful or artificial
(archaic) Machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.
(archaic) The act or art of managing engines, or artillery.
(archaic) Any device or contrivance; machinery; structure or arrangement.
As nouns the difference between contrivance and enginery
is that contrivance is a (mechanical) device to perform a certain task while enginery is (archaic) machinery made up of engines; instruments of war.contrivance
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Noun
(en noun)- And along with each of these go their images, not the things themselves, — they too have come about by godlike contrivance .
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* *enginery
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Noun
- Training his devilish enginery . — Milton.
- (Milton)
- (Shenstone)