Both Uses of
devise
in
The Time Machine
- Possibly the checks they had devised for the increase of population had succeeded too well, and their numbers had rather diminished than kept stationary.†
Chpt 4 *
- I had made myself the most complicated and the most hopeless trap that ever a man devised.†
Chpt 5
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