All 6 Uses of
devise
in
Love's Labour's Lost
- Who devised this penalty?†
Scene 1.1 *devised = came up with (invented or created)
- If any man be seen to talk with a woman within the term of three years, he shall endure such public shame as the rest of the court can possibly devise.'†
Scene 1.1devise = come up with (invent or create)
- If drawing my sword against the humour of affection would deliver me from the reprobate thought of it, I would take Desire prisoner, and ransom him to any French courtier for a new-devised curtsy.†
Scene 1.2devised = came up with (invented or created)
- Devise, wit; write, pen; for I am for whole volumes in folio.†
Scene 1.2devise = come up with (invent or create)
- And win them too; therefore let us devise Some entertainment for them in their tents.†
Scene 4.3
- I abhor such fanatical phantasimes, such insociable and point-devise companions; such rackers of orthography, as to speak dout, fine, when he should say doubt; det when he should pronounce debt,—d, e, b, t, not d, e, t: he clepeth a calf, cauf; half, hauf; neighbour vocatur nebour, neigh abbreviated ne.†
Scene 5.1
Definition:
to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan