All 4 Uses of
devise
in
Arrowsmith
- Science in devising new techniques.†
Chpt 10 *
- He had never visited McGurk but he considered it, next to Rockefeller and McCormick, the soundest and freest organization for pure scientific research in the country, and if he had pictured a Heavenly laboratory in which good scientists might spend eternity in happy and thoroughly impractical research, he would have devised it in the likeness of McGurk.†
Chpt 13
- But Martin was by now too much of a scientific dialectician for Holabird, who gave up and retired to his den (or so Martin gloomily believed) to devise new ways of plaguing him.†
Chpt 38
- His mathematics and physical chemistry were now as sound as Terry's, his indifference to publicity and to flowery hangings as great, his industry as fanatical, his ingenuity in devising new apparatus at least comparable, and his imagination far more swift.†
Chpt 40
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