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to come up with a way of doing something — typically a creative idea or planIn law, devise can also reference a gift given in a will (or the act of bequeathing such a gift).
- She plans to devise something to launch water balloons.
devise = come up with (invent or create)
- This may be our last chance to devise a compromise that will save the peace.
- To paraphrase Churchill, "Democracy is the worst form of government ever devised by the mind of man, except for all the other forms that have been tried from time to time."
- Every man is his own ancestor, and every man is his own heir. He devises his own future, and he inherits his own past.Frederick Henry Hedge
- devised a way to distribute the risk and benefits
- we can devise a thousand honest ways of making a livelihood.Anne Bronte -- Agnes Grey
- In his arrogance the wicked man hunts down the weak, who are caught in the schemes he devises.Psalm 10:2
- Therefore devise with me how we may fly,William Shakespeare -- As You Like It
- Then comes she to me,
And with wild looks, bid me devise some means
To rid her from this second marriage,William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - Jem, educated on a half-Decimal half-Duncecap basis, seemed to function effectively alone or in a group, but Jem was a poor example: no tutorial system devised by man could have stopped him from getting at books.Harper Lee -- To Kill a Mockingbird
- You must devise a way so that you sleep a little if he is quiet and steady.Ernest Hemingway -- The Old Man and the Sea
- Then he devised a way.Jack London -- To Build a Fire
- Bid her devise
some means to come to shrift this afternoon.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - I do protest I never injur'd thee,
But love thee better than thou canst devise,
Till thou shalt know the reason of my love.
And so good Capulet—which name I tender
As dearly as mine own—be satisfied.William Shakespeare -- Romeo and Juliet - So a new technique was devised.Kurt Vonnegut -- Slaughterhouse-Five
- In order to keep you safe, we devised a way for you to be separated from us.Veronica Roth -- Insurgent
- It was clear that he had devised these beds long before; last night he slept on the sofa.Fyodor Dostoyevsky -- The Idiot
- But slowly it dawned upon my love-drunk skull: he had only welcomed me there after devising his program to make me whole!Barbara Kingsolver -- The Poisonwood Bible
- A thing devised by the enemy.William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
- While I'm sure your men won't like that much, we'll have a very long time to devise our next move."Ransom Riggs -- Hollow City
devise = come up with (invent or create)
devised = come up with (created)
devise = come up with (invent)
devised = invented
devise = come up with (invent)
devised = came up with (invented or created)
devise = come up with (invent)
devise = imagine (invent in the mind)
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