Both Uses of
devise
in
Man And Superman
- Give these people the most perfect political constitution and the soundest political program that benevolent omniscience can devise for them, and they will interpret it into mere fashionable folly or canting charity as infallibly as a savage converts the philosophical theology of a Scotch missionary into crude African idolatry.†
Chpt Ded.
- Besides, instead of making herself an eyesore, like her mother, she has devised a mourning costume of black and violet silk which does honor to her late father and reveals the family tradition of brave unconventionality by which Ramsden sets such store.†
Chpt 1 *
Definition:
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(devise as in: devise a plan) to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan