All 4 Uses of
devise
in
Bleak House
- But he regards the Court of Chancery, even if it should involve an occasional delay of justice and a trifling amount of confusion, as a something devised in conjunction with a variety of other somethings by the perfection of human wisdom for the eternal settlement (humanly speaking) of everything.†
Chpt 1-3 *
- On the following day Mr. Weevle, who is a handy good-for-nothing kind of young fellow, borrows a needle and thread of Miss Flite and a hammer of his landlord and goes to work devising apologies for window-curtains, and knocking up apologies for shelves, and hanging up his two teacups, milkpot, and crockery sundries on a pennyworth of little hooks, like a shipwrecked sailor making the best of it.†
Chpt 19-21
- The state in which her dresses were, and the extraordinary confusion in which she kept them, added not a little to our difficulty; but at length we devised something not very unlike what a common-place mother might wear on such an occasion.†
Chpt 28-30
- That he had written to him, gone to him, talked with him, tried every gentle and persuasive art his kindness could devise.†
Chpt 43-45
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