All 4 Uses

devise
in
A Room of One's Own
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Jane Austen looked at it and laughed at it and devised a perfectly natural, shapely sentence proper for her own use and never departed from it.†
Chpt 4 *

devised = came up with (invented or created)
Again, the nerves that feed the brain would seem to differ in men and women, and if you are going to make them work their best and hardest, you must find out what treatment suits them—whether these hours of lectures, for instance, which the monks devised, presumably, hundreds of years ago, suit them—what alternations of work and rest they need, interpreting rest not as doing nothing but as doing something but something that is different; and what should that difference be?†
Chpt 4
Indeed it was the desire to write about women perhaps that led men by degrees to abandon the poetic drama which, with its violence, could make so little use of them, and to devise the novel as a more fitting receptacle.†
Chpt 5

devise = come up with (invent or create)
And she reaches out for it, I thought, again raising my eyes from the page, and has to devise some entirely new combination of her resources, so highly developed for other purposes, so as to absorb the new into the old without disturbing the infinitely intricate and elaborate balance of the whole.†
Chpt 5

Definitions:

(1) (devise as in: devise a plan)
to come up with a way of doing something -- typically a creative idea or plan
(2) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
In law, devise can also reference a gift given in a will (or the act of bequeathing such a gift).